Hinemihi

"Hinemihi o Te Ao Tawhito will soon return to Aotearoa, after over a century standing in the gardens of Clandon Park in Surrey...Hinemihi is the creation of two remarkable Ngti Tarawhai carvers, Wero Troi and Tene Waitere, whose creativity and response to the colonial experience of nineteenth century Aotearoa was the subject of the exhibition by New Zealand photographer Mark Adams...entitled Hinemihi: Te Hokinga The Return...Hinemihis story is told via a wealth of previously unpublished images of the whare, and her environment when she stood at Te Wairoa and welcomed guests onto the whenua of T¿±hourangi and Ngti Hinemihi...A compelling case is presented, in interviews with contemporary artists Mark Adams and Lyonel Grant, for the kaupapa of carvers such as Wero Troi and Tene Waitere to be placed at the centre of discussions regarding the nature of the artistic canon of Aotearoa"--Front cover flap.