Completing our tukutuku

About a year ago I attended a workshop to make a tukutuku – a latticework panel used to decorate a Māori meeting house. You can read the blog post about it here: unfortunately, we ran out of time to complete it. Happily, the tutors Jim and Cathy Schuster returned to the UK a couple of […]

Wanaga tukutuku

A tukutuku is a latticework panel used to decorate Maori meeting houses, and on Sunday I spent a fascinating day at a wanaga (workshop) learning how to make one at the UCL Department of Anthropology. The workshop was organised by Te Maru o Hinemihi and sponsored by the British Council. The tutors, Jim and Cathy […]