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Review: Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art, by Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki

'Ngā kete e toru o te mātauranga, the three baskets of knowledge, are used to structure the book, and to loosely divide Māori art into three separate, but connected and overlapping, categories. The pūrākau of Tāne and the three baskets of knowledge is here used as a structuring device, deliberately preferencing Māori forms of knowing over more Eurocentric devices such as chronology or media...'