Maori Gallery

Whare Runanga - Wairoa, c.1865-70 (b/w photo)

495396 Whare Runanga - Wairoa, c.1865-70 (b/w photo) by Burton, Alfred (1834-1914); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wairoa is a town on New Zealand's North Island. A wharenui is a communal house of the MAori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a marae - also called a whare runanga (meeting house) or whare whakairo (carved house); takitimu wharenui; Ngati Kahungunu; tribal house; ); New Zealander, out of copyright

© Bridgeman Images

Maori head tattoos, artwork

Maori head tattoos. 19th century artwork of tattooed Maori heads. The Maoris, the indigenous population of the islands of New Zealand, are generally tattoed in curved or spiral lines that are concentrated on the face. The patterns of the tattooing are often personalised to the person being tattooed. Artwork from The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man (Sir John Lubbock, 1870)

© SHEILA TERRY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Tattooing Styles from around the world

Tattooing Styles from around the world: 1. West African Woman 2. New Zealand Maori Chieftain 3. New Zealand Maori King 4. Caroline Islander 5/6. Hand and foot tattoos of a Dayak of Borneo 7. Japanese full-body tattoo. Date: circa 1895

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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