Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

Te Arawa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato

1949 -

1 May Ngahuia was born in Ohinemutu, Rotorua, and was educated mainly in Rotorua. She studied at Auckland and Waikato Universities, the East West Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She gained her Phd with a thesis on tourism and Te Arawa. In 1984 she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Māori at Victoria University. After working in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England, she became Curator of Ethnology at the Waikato Museum of Art and History. She later took up an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Auckland and is currently Professor and Head of the Māori Studies Department at Victoria University. She was the first Māori woman to be appointed to a Professorship. "Raised among storytellers, weavers and orators, she has always enjoyed the patterning and magic of words, the making of stories." She states that her love for writing was initially fostered at St Michael’s Convent: ‘They encouraged me to write stories and got them into Catholic schools’ little bulletins.... I also won a national essay writing competition when I was 11." At high school she won a national award for writing and had work published in magazines. She writes: "I have always written screeds and screeds of poetry and in my first year in Auckland, had a lot published. Then I was invited to share the lectern with one of my great all-time heroes, Hone Tuwhare.... Much of what I wrote and read was obviously lesbian, and this was 1968, [a] long before that type of writing, at least in this country, was ever fronted in a public forum." She writes that she "can’t contain all her selves within a single sentence... but at first sighting, is a middle-aged Māori lesbian, with a fiendish weakness for cats. And chocolate, dark, rich, and bitter." Although a university-based art historian, she prefers to be seen as a creative writer and lover of beauty. Ngahuia writes short stories, some poetry, non-fiction papers and publications. She was involved in the production of Rongo which was compiled by members of Te Huinga Rangatahi o Aotearoa and published by their media collective.

Biographical sources

  • Correspondence from Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, 2 June 1993 and 7 Sept. 1998.
  • New Women’s Fiction. Ed. Aorewa Mcleod, Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1988. 157.
  • New Women’s Fiction 3. Ed. Mary Paul and Marion Rae. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989.
  • The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand. Eds. Cathie Dunsford and Susan Hawthorne. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1990. 149.
  • "He Whare Tangata: He Whare Kura?" Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 26.

    Fiction

  • "The Work I Hope To Do When I Leave School." Te Ao Hou 46 (1964): 47.
  • In the essay Ngahuia asserts her conviction that the Māori culture must be retained for future Māori generations and states that to that end she wants to study anthropology in order to record the traditions of her people. This essay won the 1963 Ngarimu V.C. and 28th Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board Award for best essay written in English in the Forms III and IV section.
  • "Lesbianism: the elegance of unfettered love." Craccum 45.15 15 July 1971: 6.
  • Noting the negative presentation of lesbians in contemporary literature, Ngahuia discusses various approaches to expressing lesbianism, the difficulties facing lesbians, and the different lesbian movements.
  • "He Wahine, He Whenua, E Ngaro Ai Te Tangata: By Women, By Land, Men Are Lost." Craccum 46.22 (14 Sept. 1972). Rpt. in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 45-47.
  • A discussion on the position of Māori women within Māori society and the wider New Zealand society.
  • "Rotorua: A Century of Tourism." The Social and Economic Impact of Tourism on Pacific Communities. Ed. Bryan H. Farrell. Santa Cruz, USA: Center for South Pacific Studies, U of California,1977. 65-67.
  • Ngahuia writes a history of tourism in Rotorua with particular focus on its effect on Māori living in the district.
  • "Māori and Pueblo: Community and the Colonial Process." Theodore Jojola and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Impulse 6.2 (Fall 1979): 69-74.
  • In this paper of two parts, Ngahuia writes the first section entitled ‘History: Ohinemutu’ and presents a history of Māori settlement in Aotearoa and the influx of European settlers, missionaries and traders leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi. She then describes the history of her tribal area, specifically that of Ohinemutu, home of Ngāti Whakaue hapu of Te Arawa, land disputes, and the impact of tourism in the district. In the second part Theodore Jojola writes a history of the Pueblo of Isleta.
  • "Māori Perspectives of Founding a Town." Rotorua 1880-1980. Rotorua, N.Z.: H.A. Holmes & Coy; Rotorua and District Historical Society, 1980. 23-27.
  • Ngahuia provides a background to the ‘Agreement for a Township at Ohinemutu Between Francis Dart Fenton for the Government of New Zealand and the Chiefs of Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Rangiwewehi and Ngāti Uenukukopako the Supposed Owners of the Soil’ which was composed by Fenton and six Te Arawa kaumatua, and ratified on 25 Nov 1880. In September 1881 the Thermal Springs Districts Act incorporated the agreement and on 12 October 1881 Rotorua was declared a town. Ngahuia writes of the resulting problems with leaseholders, and the Māori reserves, and the indignity of the Ohinemutu Streets Empowering Act of 1974.
  • "Māori Culture and Tourist Income." Pacific Tourism: As Islanders See It. Ed. Dr. Freda Rajotte and Dr. Ron Crocombe. [Fiji?]: The Institute for Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific in association with the South Pacific Social Sciences Association, 1980. 153-162.
  • Ngahuia provides a history of tourism in Rotorua, writes of the role of the local subtribes in providing guides, and accommodation for tourists, preserving and teaching the traditional Māori arts and crafts, and providing Māori entertainment for tourists. Ngahuia also discusses the establishment of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute.
  • "Kai Arahi: Women and Tourism." "The Sociocultural Impact of Tourism on the Te Arawa People of Rotorua". PhD thesis, U of Waikato, 1981. Rpt. in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 73-111.
  • In this chapter from her doctoral thesis, Ngahuia looks at the role of women in Te Arawa. Noting the small amount of published literature dealing with Māori women, Ngahuia reinterprets some of the preconceived ideas of the position of women in traditional Māori society by retelling stories of strong women in Māori tradition and mythology. She writes of the emergence of the guiding movement in Rotorua and provides brief biographies of the most famous guides. Ngahuia discusses the images of Māori women perpetuated by the tourist industry, and details the specific kawa relating to Te Arawa women in terms of speaking rights and whakairo/woodcarving.
  • "He Wahine, He Whenua: Māori Women and the Environment." New Zealand Environment 33 (Autumn 1982): 30-32. Rpt. in Reclaim the Earth. Ed. Leonie Caldecott and Stephanie Leland. London, UK: Women’s Press, 1984. Rpt. in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 66-70.
  • In this article Ngahuia explores the relationship between Māori women and the land, and notes the parallel abuses that both suffer from the hands of men.
  • "Karanga Te Po, Karanga Te Ao: Some Aspects of Story-telling by Māori Women." Symposium on Improvisation in the Performing Arts. Ed. Ricardo Trimillos and William Feltz. Honolulu, HI: East West Centre, 1983. Rpt. in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 106-111.
  • Ngahuia discusses two roles of Māori women in Rotoru: kai arahi - the tourist guide, and kai karanga - lamenting and story-telling.
  • "We Will Become Ill If We Stop Weaving." 1983. ibid. 112-124.
  • A detailed report of the national Māori and Pacific Weavers’ Hui held at Pakirikiri Marae, Tokomaru Bay, from 21-23 October 1983, and a list of the recommendations made by the hui and an account of the formation of Te Moana a Kiwa Weavers.
  • "Māori and Lesbian: My View." Women Who Do And Women Who Don’t Join The Women’s Movement. Ed. and introd. Robyn Rowland. London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. 116-121. Rpt. as "Māori and Feminist: My View." Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 17-21.
  • In this article Ngahuia writes of her childhood, education and identity as Māori, lesbian and feminist. She describes her introduction into the women’s movement in the early 1970s and gives her views on feminism and its intersections with her Māori identity.
  • "New Zealand: Foreigners in Our Own Land." Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Marilyn J. Waring. Sisterhood is Global: The International Women’s Movement Anthology. Compiled, ed and introd. Robin Morgan. Garden City, New York, USA Anchor, 1984. 480-484.
  • Co-authored with Marilyn J. Waring.
  • "Conclusion." Tauiwi: Racism and Ethnicity in New Zealand. Ed. P.Spoonley (et.al) Palmerston North, N.Z.: The Dunmore Press Ltd, 1984. 244-248. Rpt. as "From Tauiwi: Racism and Ethnicity in New Zealand." in Te Ao Mārama: Regaining Aotearoa: Māori Writers Speak Out. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 2: He Whakaatanga O Te Ao: The Reality. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 233-234.
  • A discourse on racism in Aotearoa in which Ngahuia discusses her first-hand experience of racist attitudes towards Māori women, and notes that while racism is ‘a reality that leaks into the consciousness of every inhabitant of Aotearoa....[l]ittle time and even less energy have been expended on its scrutiny’.
  • "He Tuhituhi Noa Iho: Māori and Museums." Agmanz Journal 16.4 (Dec. 1985): 8.
  • This article is composed of notes taken from an extemporized address to the AGMANZ Māori Collections Hui, at Takapuwahia Marae, Porirua in November 1985, in which Ngahuia discusses the role of Māori in museums housing Māori taonga. She argues for Māori guidance concerning Māori taonga, training of Māori museum personnel, and Māori reclaiming their taonga in the whare taonga [museums] of New Zealand.
  • "Nga Mahi a Hine te Iwaiwa: Māori & Pacific Island Weavers’ Hui: Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia." Agmanz Journal 16.4 (Dec. 1985): 19.
  • A report of the Third Annual Hui of Māori and Pacific Island Weavers held at Turangawaewae Marae in 1985.
  • "Tahuri - The Runaway." New Women’s Fiction. Ed. Cathie Dunsford. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1986. 63-78. Rpt. in Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991 Rpt. Toronto, Can.: Women’s Press, 1993. 34-52.
  • A grim story of the desolate, frightening world of thirteen year old Tahuri who runs away from the harsh environment of her aunt and uncle and from a school class where she is ridiculed. Tahuri’s bid to escape to her sister’s home in Auckland is fraught with violence and abuse.
  • "Looking Back at the Tourists - Rotorua." Broadsheet 141 (July/Aug. 1986): 16-20.
  • Pat Rosier compiled this article from the chapters "Touristic Emergence", "Entertainment", ‘Women and Tourism" and the conclusion of Ngahuia’s doctoral thesis "The Sociocultural Impact of Tourism on the Te Arawa People of Rotorua" (1981), which is held at Waikato University, Hamilton. Ngahuia quotes various Te Arawa responses to tourism, discusses the changes tourism has brought to the Māori performance arts, and describes the work of the tour guides and the role of Māori women in the tourist industry.
  • "Makereti: Guide Maggie Papakura 1872-1930." The Old-Time Māori. Makereti. Comp. and ed. T. K. Penniman. Introd. Ngahuia Te Awkotuku. Rev. ed. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1986. v-xi.
  • A detailed biography of Makereti’s life and an account of the Whakarewarewa guiding industry of which Makereti was a part. Ngahuia questions the curious lack of acclaim given to Makereti’s book The Old-Time Māori despite it being ‘the first comprehensive ethnographic account by a Māori scholar’.
  • "Makereti: A Model for Māori Women in Academe." Celebration. Ed. Jane Ritchie. [Hamilton?, N.Z.]: Women’s Studies Centre, Waikato U, 1986.
  • "Whero...Three Pieces, Starting Early." The Power and the Glory and Other Lesbian Stories. Ed. Miriam Saphira. Auckland, N.Z.: Papers. 1987. 15-17.
  • Three short sequences in the life of Whero’s emerging lesbianism.
  • "Te Whakahoutanga o Te Winika (The Restoration of Te Winika)." NZ Listener 28 Nov. 1987: 67.
  • A history of Te Winika - a war canoe originally built in the 1830s and eventually left on the side of the Waikato river at Tuakau until the 1930s when Te Puea called for its rebuilding and reconstruction. When Ngahuia Te Awekotuku was appointed curator of anthropology at the Waikato Museum of Art and History in Hamilton in 1985 she led a restoration programme in which, over ten months, the canoe was fully restored. It is now housed in the Waikato Museum of Art and History.
  • "The Basketball Girls." New Women’s Fiction. Ed. Aorewa Mcleod. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1988. 117-120. Rpt. in Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can.: Women’s Press, 1993. 11-15. Rpt. in Tabasco Sauce and Ice Cream: Stories by New Zealanders. Ed. Lydia Wevers. Auckland, N.Z.: Macmillan, 1990. 123-126. Rpt. in The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. Ed. Fergus Barrowman. London, UK: Picador-Macmillan General Books, 1996. 365-369.
  • A story of Huri’s admiration for the Basketball Girls.
  • "Pain and Survival." Listener 10 Sept. 1988: 44-45.
  • Review of the Whakamamae exhibition by Māori artists.
  • "He Whare Tangata: He Whare Kura? What’s Happening to Our Māori Girls?" Women and Education in Aotearoa. Ed. Sue Middleton. Wellington, N.Z.: Allen and Unwin, 1988. 89-96. Rpt. in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 22-29. Rpt. in Growing up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem, 1998. 72-80.
  • A gripping account of Ngahuia Te Awekotuku’s unsettled childhood and adolescent experiences as the sole Māori student in various schools.
  • "He Whare Taonga, He Whare Kōrero - The Role of Museums in Interpreting Culture. " AGMANZ Journal 19.2 (1988): 36-37.
  • In examining the relationship between museums and tangata whenua, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku asserts that constructive dialogue between both parties can result in Māori having increased access to ancestral works, historical records and archives, and museums gaining the opportunity to review information and imbue their institutions with ‘an indigenous input and perspective’ and adhere to Treaty of Waitangi principles. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku presents two options for Māori and museum management - making provisions for Māori to work in every aspect of museum structures or the establishment of separate institutions which could be tribally, marae or community based.
  • "Auntie Marleen." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can.: The Women’s Press, 1993. 9-10. Rpt. in Spiral 7: A Collection of Lesbian Art and Writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ed. Heather McPherson, Julie King, Marian Evans, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Wellington, N.Z.: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1992. 159-160. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga O Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 57-58.
  • A detailed portrait of Auntie Marleen who is a strong contemporary wahine toa.
  • "After the Game." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can.: Women’s Press, 1993. 16-18.
  • As the exhausted hockey players soak in one of the hot pools after their game, Auntie Pani relates the story of an old relative who exacted swift justice on an insensitive tourist taking a photograph without permission.
  • "Three for Kui." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. 19-24.
  • A story of three short chapters which explores brief domestic incidents in the life of young Tahuri.
  • "It Looks Pretty Dopey to Me." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. 26-30.
  • In this story Tahuri becomes the unwilling spectator of Cassina and boyfriend Heke’s sexual exploits.
  • "Paretipua." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can.: Women’s Press, 1993. 53-54.
  • A short celebration of the wondrous tresses of Paretipua.
  • "Old Man Tuna." ibid. 55-59. Rpt. in New Women’s Fiction 3. Ed. Mary Paul and Marion Rae. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989.
  • An evening fishing for tuna with her two brothers, Milton and Tuku, turns terribly wrong for Whero.
  • "Watching the Big Girls." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can: Women’s Press, 1993. 60-64.
  • In this story Tahuri recalls watching the ‘Big Girls’ groom themselves in front of the miror in the women’s toilets, and reflects on her different persuasion.
  • "Rainy Day Afternoon." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can: Women’s Press, 1993. 68-71.
  • When Tahuri’s cousin Atea comes to stay for the holidays Tahuri is confronted with Atea’s emerging womanhood.
  • "Red Jersey." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can: Women’s Press, 1993. 95-99.
  • A story about the complexities of Whero’s attraction to Teresa Taylor.
  • "Makawe." The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories. Ed. Susan Davis and Russell Haley. Auckland, N.Z.: Penguin, 1989. 222-225. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga O Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 66-69.
  • The story about Makawe’s revenge.
  • Tahuri: Stories. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can.: Women’s Press, 1993.
  • A collection of 16 short stories which explore aspects of womanhood and lesbianism in the life of adolescent Tahuri. Tahuri: Stories is taught at universities and high schools nation-wide. The Women’s Press, of Toronto, Canada, purchased the American rights, and it was launched there in April 1993.
  • "He Whakaaro, He Whakaahua." Antic 6 (Nov. 1989):1-2.
  • Te Awekotuku writes of the intense isolation facing Māori students at tertiary institutions and art schools, and acknowledges the cultural gap between the Northern European-trained art historians and practitioners who teach at such institutions and their Māori students. Te Awekotuku argues for staffing to be a true reflection of the bicultural nature of students and the urgent need to appoint Māori staff at senior levels.
  • "On Grafton And Being Careful." Metro 9.91 (Jan. 1989): 70-72.
  • Te Awekotuku writes of her life in Auckland, N.Z. in the late 1960s and early 1970s when she was a young Māori lesbian student living in O’Rorke Hall and later in a student flat in Grafton where she engaged in ‘poozelling’ and saw the gradual demolition of the old houses in Grafton.
  • "Dykes & Queers." Broadsheet 168 (May 1989): 17-19. Rpt. in a longer form as "Dykes & Queers: Facts, Fairytales and Fictions." In Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 36-41.
  • The transcript of Te Awekotuku’s keynote speech at the National Lesbian and Gay Conference held in Auckland, N.Z. during Easter, 1989, in which she presents a history of the gay rights movement in New Zealand. She discusses homosexuality in Polynesian and Māori tradition, notes the impact of the Stonewall Nightclub in New York in 1969 and outlines the origins of the movement in New Zealand beginning with meetings at Auckland University in the early 1970s.
  • "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku: The Life Of A Māori Woman." Broadsheet 174 (Dec./Jan. 1989):14-19.
  • An autobiographical account of Te Awekotuku’s childhood, education, isolation as a Māori student at Auckland University, and involvement with Nga Tamatoa and the New Zealand Federation of Māori Students which later became Te Huinga Rangatahi O Aotearoa. Te Awekotuku discusses the Māori Language Petition and Māori Language Week in the early 1970s, her pursuit of post graduate and doctoral studies, and subsequent difficulties in obtaining employment.
  • "Mats of the Pacific." Art New Zealand 52 (Spring 1989): 88-90.
  • A review of the Pacific Mats exhibition.
  • "He Tika." The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand. Ed. Cathie Dunsford and Susan Hawthorne. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1990. 109-115.
  • A story portraying the relationship of Tahuri’s two Aunts.
  • "Towards 1990." Antic 5 (June 1989):1-3. Rpt. in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 163-165.
  • Te Awekotuku provides a discussion of some of the issues facing Māori and particularly Māori artmakers as they consider the sesquicentenary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1990.
  • "The Living Past." New Zealand Geographic 5 (Jan.-Mar. 1990): 75-86.
  • David Simmons, Raymond Lau, Dr Roger Neich and Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku assisted with this article which includes descriptive notes and photographs of Māori taonga from the Brian Brake Collection.
  • "Kurangaituku." New Women’s Fiction 4. Ed. Wendy Harrex and Lynsey Ferrari. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 9-16. Rpt. in Vital Writing 3: New Zealand Stories & Poems, 1991-92. Ed. Andrew Mason. Auckland, N.Z.: Godwit Press, 1992. 131-139. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga O Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 60-66.
  • Te Awekotuku provides a gripping account of the legend of Hatupatu and Kurangaituku, in which the birdwoman exacts dramatic and devastating revenge on Hatupatu for the murder of her loved ones.
  • "Māori Women - Mana Wahine: Beginnings of a Māori Feminism." Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 52-59.
  • Ngahuia describes two early expressions of the contemporary Māori Feminist movement: the Young Māori Leaders Conference of September 1977 and the first Huihuinga Wahine Māori Anake held in November 1977 at Freeman’s Bay Daycare Centre. She writes of the emergence of diverse women’s groups in the 1980s some of which had links with Black American models. She also highlights the need ‘for solidarity, aroha and sisterhood’ between Māori lesbian women/wahine takatapui, and notes their work in rape crisis, refuge centres, social welfare and education.
  • "Whakaaro Noa Iho: Some Ideas for Māori Women." Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 60-65.
  • Ngahuia outlines issues facing Māori women within the Māori community and notes the tension at times between racial rights and women’s rights. She describes the patriarchal and hierarchical structures in Māori society which can demean Māori women and urges Māori women to choose a world where their needs are recognised. This paper was presented to the Piha Women’s Congress in January 1978.
  • "Poi Atu Taku Poi: Tourism and Women’s Dance in Te Arawa." Symposium Presentation. Te Māori Opening. New York, 1984. Revised in 1990. Published in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 125-134.
  • Te Awekotuku writes of the development of Māori dance forms and particularly the poi. She quotes from 19th century written accounts and describes the new poi dances introduced by Te Arawa Bella Thom at the turn of the century and discusses further developments in the 1950s using two poi.
  • "Te Hu o Tarawera: One Hundred Years Later, 1886-1986." Tarawera Exhibition. Auckland City Art Gallery. Auckland, N.Z., 1986. Published in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 155-162.
  • An account of the emerging Māori tourist industry at Tarawera in the 19th century prior to the Tarawera eruption.
  • "Art and the Spirit." ibid. 93-97. Rpt. in Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 135-139.
  • In this essay on Māori art, Te Awekotuku discusses the inseparable links between artmaking and spirituality. She also notes the capacity for adaptation of traditional art forms when Māori moved away from the resources of the Pacific Island to the colder climate of Aotearoa, and the accomodation of metal tools introduced by the European settlers. Te Awekotuku maintains that despite the 19th century ravages against traditional Māori art forms, ‘as the cultures of this land entangle, convolute, merge or parallel, new art forms and new artmakers rise to the surface from within the Māori world.’
  • "Mana Wahine: Seeking Meanings for Ourselves." Changing Our Lives: Women Working In The Women’s Liberation Movement 1970-1990. Ed. Maud Cahill and Christine Dann. Wellington, N.Z.: Bridget Williams, 1991. 25-33.
  • A personal account of the development of contemporary feminism, the Māori women’s movement and gay rights in New Zealand from September 1970 to 1990. The key events are highlighted and their long term impact and merits are assessed. Te Awekotuku records the confluence of these different strands and the underlying tensions in bringing them together.
  • "A Domestic Argument Becomes Public: At the Barricades in Ohinemutu, 1974." 1981. Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 48-51.
  • Ngahuia writes of the Ngāti Whakaue protest against the Rotorua City Council’s transfer of Māori land title to the Council in 1974.
  • "Remembering Makareti." Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 143-154. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Regaining Aotearoa: Māori Writers Speak Out. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 2: He Whakaatanga O Te Ao: The Reality. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 291-298.
  • In this biographical paper on the life of Makareti, Te Awekotuku notes that very little has been written about Māori women and in the case of Makereti her many contributions and commanding intellect have been overshadowed and minimised by a media that has concentrated more on her physical beauty. This is the transcript of an unwritten speech presented by Te Awekotuku at the opening of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Waikato in 1986.
  • "Guide Maggie: Makereti Papakura." Biography of New Zealand Women: Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa. Ed. Charlotte MacDonald, Meremere Penfold and Bridget Williams. Wellington, N.Z.: Bridget Williams, 1991. 491-493.
  • A detailed biographical account of the famous Whakarewarewa guide and Māori scholar Makereti Papakura.
  • Mana Wahine Māori: Selected Writings on Māori Women’s Art, Culture and Politics. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991.
  • A collection of writings by Te Awekotuku divided into four sections. The first section deals with autobiographical aspects of Te Awekotuku’s childhood, adolescence, lesbianism and emerging feminism. Te Awekotuku states that the five articles in the second section ‘outline the processes of political thought, action, and analysis which intrigued and consumed [her] for more than a decade.’ In the third section Te Awekotuku ‘looks at coping with diverse changes and challenging differences; at the dilemmas faced by Māori women today, and yesterday, and their resolution; at the inherent flexibility which sustains and enhances Māori women’s traditional activities, and ensures the welfare of the people.’ She describes the Māori women’s arts of guiding, story-telling, weaving and dancing. The final section composed of three papers focus on Makereti, the Tarawera eruption and a commentary on the Treaty of Waitangi.
  • He Tikanga Whakaaro: Research Ethics in the Māori Community: A Discussion Paper. Wellington, N.Z.: Manawatu Māori, Ministry of Māori Affairs, 1991.
  • In this extensive discussion on research ethics in the Māori community Te Awekotuku provides a framework of customary concepts of knowledge in traditional Māori society, and examines in detail the different ways Māori and Māori knowledge have been researched by Pakeha and Māori from last century to the present day. She concludes the paper by compiling ‘Principles of Ethical Conduct for Researchers in the Māori Community’ and reproduces the New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists ‘Principles of Professional Responsibility and Ethical Conduct.’
  • "Mirimiri." ibid. 76-94. Rpt. in International Feminist Fiction: Ed. Julia Penelope and Sarah Valentine. California, USA: Crossing Press, 1992.
  • A story about Tahuri’s emerging friendship with Mirimiri.
  • "Their Public/Private Passion." Landfall 183 46.3 (Sept. 1992): 330-332. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga O Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 69-71.
  • A brief encounter between married Kopae and young Harema as they talked through the night on the marae at Pipiwai.
  • "They Said He Was Dead." My Father And Me: New Zealand Women Remember. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1992. 162-164. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 233-234.
  • In this book exploring the relationship between daughters and fathers, Te Awekotuku’s contribution has a poignancy because she never met her father. She recalls memories in her childhood when she wondered about her father, reflects on occasions when she met his relatives and gathers together the brief descriptions of her father passed on by others.
  • "He Whiriwhiri Wahine: Framing Women’s Studies for Aotearoa." Te Pua 1.1 (Sept. 1992): 46-58.
  • This essay is based on the text of a paper presented by Te Awekotuku at a Women’s Studies Seminar held in Tane-nui-a-Rangi House in October 1991. Te Awekotuku discusses women’s studies in New Zealand and argues for the ‘need to secure a Women’s Studies conceptual framework that rises from the fertile bicultural earth of Aotearoa, and recognises the unique opportunity to distil and realise our own ideals, and our own theoretical resolutions, shaped by forces and factors from within our own community, and our own knowledge traditions.’ She offers three possible frameworks: revising and reacting to the androcentric bias; visionary and proactive - choosing a gynocentric base; or a form that combines both. Te Awekotuku assesses Women’s Studies in New Zealand universities and discusses the recognition of Māori women and issues of race within such courses and theories.
  • "Kia Mau, Kia Manawanui - We Will Never Go Away: Experiences of a Māori Lesbian Feminist." Feminist Voices: Women’s Studies Texts for Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ed. Rosemary Du Plessis with Phillida Bunkle, Kathie Irwin, Alison Laurie and Sue Middleton. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford UP, 1992. 278-289.
  • This autobiographical essay is a composite of two Broadsheet articles of 1989: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku", an interview with Pat Rosier, and "Dykes and Queers", the text of the opening speech to the 1989 Lesbian/Gay Easter Conference. Ngahuia shares her childhood experiences growing up in Rotorua, the struggles and isolation she experienced during her school years and her active involvement in the gay liberation movement, the Māori activist group Nga Tamatoa and Te Huinga Rangatahi O Aotearoa during the 1970s. She traces the course of her academic career, outlining the various obstacles in gaining employment as a highly qualified Māori lesbian feminist.
  • "Sunday Drive." ibid. 63-67. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga O Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 58-60.
  • "Olympia." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can: Women’s Press, 1993. 72-75.
  • A story about Whero’s lonely night at the movies.
  • "He Puna Roimata Mo Te Pa Harakeke." Nga Nui O Te Ra: teaching, nurturing, developments of Māori Women’s Weaving: Te Taumata Gallery, Finance Plaza, Victoria Street, Auckland, N.Z., 7-22 March 1993. Funded by Aotearoa Moananui A Kiwa Weavers with the support of Te Waka Toi Council for Māori & South Pacific Arts. [Auckland, N.Z.: Aotearoa Moananui A Kiwa Weavers], 1993. 4-5.
  • In this catalogue essay for the Nga Nui O Te Ra exhibition held at Te Taumata Gallery in Auckland, N.Z. from 7-22 March, 1993, Te Awekotuku writes of the change, flexibility and adaptation of the Māori traditional weavers of the past and the present to different weaving materials and natural resources found in Aotearoa and to introduced materials.
  • "Some Ideas for Māori Women." The Vote, The Pill and The Demon Drink: Ed. Charlotte Macdonald. Wellington, N.Z.: Bridget Williams, 1993.
  • "Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 52-53.
  • Te Awekotuku provides a brief history of the Māori King Movement and a biography of Te Atairangikaahu who became the Māori Queen in 1966 after the death of her father King Koroki.
  • "Kuia: Matriarchs and Grandmothers." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 82-83.
  • Te Awekotuku provides definitions of the term kuia and notes the various functions of kuia in Māori life such as karanga, keening, instruction and correction in certain tribes of the oral arts, composition, manaaki tangata, midwifery, weaving and significant roles in Kohanga Reo.
  • "Te Hunga Arahi: Tourist Guides in the Hot Lakes District." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 216-217.
  • A history of Māori guides in the Rotorua Lakes Region and a description of some of the famous personalities involved in guiding.
  • "Makereti: Guide Maggie Papakura." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 217.
  • A short biography of Makereti.
  • "Wahine Ta Whakairo: Māori Women Artmakers." The Vote, The Pill and The Demon Drink: Ed. Charlotte Macdonald. Wellington, N.Z.: Bridget Williams, 1993. “Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu.” Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 274-275.
  • Te Awekotuku provides a history of the development of the contemporary Māori women’s art movement and notes the ongoing nature of the weaving and fibre arts, and the adoption of new contemporary art forms with underlying themes of political action, racism, the Treaty of Waitangi, and women’s issues by Māori women and Māori collectives.
  • "Te Pa Harakeke: Traditional Fibre Art of the Māori." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 278-279.
  • Te Awekotuku writes of the adaption of the early Māori settlers to new weaving resources in Aotearoa and later to the influx of European materials. She notes that in the mid-twentieth century the threatened extinction of some of the weaving arts was waylaid by the actions of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, the University of Auckland’s University Extension courses, Rangimarie Hetet and her daughter Diggeress Te Kanawa and the weavers assocation Aotearoa Moana Nui a Kiwa Weavers who have taught and maintained weaving skills throughout the country.
  • "Rangimarie Hetet." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 279.
  • Te Awekotuku writes of Rangimarie Hetet’s enormous contribution to the ongoing vitality and continuity of traditional Māori weaving skills.
  • "Turangawaewae: A Place to Stand; A Place to Call One’s Own." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 296-297.
  • A history of the building of Turangawaewae Marae which was built on land where the second Māori King Tawhiao Matutaera spent his childhood. It was later part of the land confiscations of Waikato, and was purchased back in 1919 with Te Puea embarking on huge fundraising efforts to finance the building of the marae.
  • "Te Puea Herangi." Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote. Principal author and principal researcher - text and illustrations Sandra Coney. Ed. advisers - Charlotte Macdonald, Anne Else, Dame Joan Metge, Tania Rei, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Angela Ballara, Merimeri Penfold, and Rosemarie Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking-Penguin, 1993. 297.
  • A biography of Te Puea Herangi and an account of her great contribution to Māoridom.
  • "He Take Ano: Another Take: Conversations with Lisa Reihana." Art New Zealand 68 (Spring 1993): 84-87.
  • Te Awekotuku talks with Māori film-maker Lisa Reihana and discusses her film, Wog Features, her fifteen minute video Tauira, and Reihana’s solo exhibition at the McDougall Art Gallery’s Art Annex entitled Take.
  • "Kura Te Waru Rewiti." Art New Zealand 68 (Spring 1993): 91-93.
  • A discussion of the art work and motivating influences of Māori painter Kura Te Waru Rewiri.
  • "Ngā Rōpu Wāhine Māori/Māori Women’s Organisations." Tania Rei, Geraldine McDonald and Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku. Women Together: A History of Women’s Organisations in New Zealand: Ngā Ropu Wāhine o te Motu. Ed. Anne Else. Wellington, N.Z.: Daphne Brasell; Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1993. 3-15.
  • A comprehensive chronological overview of Māori Women’s organisations including a brief account of the traditional work of Māori women, the guides of Whakarewarewa, the inroads made in the 1890s when Māori women gained the vote, Māori women’s involvement in the prohibition movement, and Miria Pomare’s leadership during the First World War. Other topics include Māori women’s participation in sports teams, health issues, the Women’s Health League, Māori Womens Welfare League, the protest groups of the late 1960s and 70s, the Young Māori Leaders’ Conference, and other hui in Otara in September 1980 and Tauranga in April 1984.
  • "Lesbian Organising." Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Shirley Tamihana, Julia Glamuzina and Alison Laurie. Women Together: A History of Women’s Organisations in New Zealand: Ngā Ropū Wāhine o te Motu. Ed. Anne Else. Wellington, N.Z.: Daphne Brasell; Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1993. 554-557.
  • A chapter on the history of lesbian groups in New Zealand with Te Awekotuku and Tamihana providing an account of the Māori lesbian movement.
  • "Koura." ibid. 31-33. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 59-61. Rpt. in Women Writers Engagement Calendar 1995. Ed. Parice Vecchione. California, USA: Crossing, n.pag.
  • A short account of Tahuri’s evening catching koura under the full moon with Kuikui.
  • "Painfully Pink." Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mexed Rce Women: Ed. Carole Camper. Toronto, Can, Vision, 1994.
  • A sensual interaction between the speaker and the object of her love whose identity is beguilingly hidden from the reader until the very last line.
  • "He Ngangahu." Mana Wahine: Women Who Show the Way. Ed. Amy Brown, Auckland, N.Z.: Reed Methuen, 1994. 24-32.
  • "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku." Convent Girls. Ed. Jane Tolerton. Auckland, N.Z.: Penguin, 1994. 124-136.
  • "Purotu." Below the Surface: Words and Images in Protest at French Testing on Moruroa. Ed. Ambury Hall. Auckland, N.Z.: Vintage, 1995. No further details.
  • "Māori: Culture and Society." MāORI: the Arts and the People. Ed. Dorota Starzecka. London, UK: British Museum Press, 1996. No further details.
  • "Māori Art 900-1900 A.D." The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Jane Turner. London, UK; New York: MacMillan; Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996. No further details.
  • "Unveiling Our HiddenTreasure: The Seventh Pacific Festival of Arts 1996." Art New Zealand 81 (Summer 1996/1997). No further details.
  • "Ta Moko: Māori Tattoo." Goldie: Ed. Roger Blackley. London, UK: David Bateman, 1997. No further details.
  • Ruahine: Mythic Women. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2003.Non-fiction Articles
  • "Hinengaro." Get On The Waka: Best Recent Māori Fiction. Ed. with intro. By Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed Books, 2007. 160-169.

  • Poetry

  • "Hinemoa and Tutanekai." Te Ao Hou 54 (1966): 48.
  • The poet recounts the traditional love story of Hinemoa and Tutanekai from the perspective of Hinemoa. Ngahuia wrote this poem at the age of 16 when she was a pupil at Western Heights High School in Rotorua.
  • "Pukeroa." Te Ao Hou 58 (1967): 54-55.
  • As she looks at the old pa site of Pukeroa, the poet remembers the richness of the Māori past and heritage and contrasts it with the heritage of the white man of ‘muskets, fire and bricks/ With industry, with progress/ With 1966.’
  • "On St Faiths, Ohinemutu." Te Ao Hou 58 (1967): 55.
  • In St Faith’s Church with its Māori carvings and decorations, the poet sees ‘perfect integration / peace / tranquility preserved’.
  • "On Mount Tarawera: Thinking Of Its Eruption 80 Years Ago - Inspired By A Tramp Up To The Summit." In ‘Younger Readers’ Section.’ Te Ao Hou 60 (1967): 49.
  • The poet writes of the ‘strangely savage beauty’ of the volcanic crater at the top of Mount Tarawera which has ‘spewed’ destruction ‘upon an innocent world.’
  • "Janet Frame: Some Themes From Her Novels." U of Auckland, 1974.
  • "The Sociocultural Impact Of Tourism On The Te Arawa People Of Rotorua, New Zealand." Ph.D thesis. U of Waikato, 1981.
  • "Uncle Ted In The Big Truck." Tahuri. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1989. Rpt. 1991. Rpt. Toronto, Can.: Women’s Press, 1993. 25. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 219-220.
  • "Mururoa/Moruroa." Below The Surface:Words And Images In Protest At French Testing On Moruroa. Ed. Ambury Hall. Auckland, N.Z.: Vintage, 1995.
  • A poem about the speaker’s admiration for her Uncle Ted.
  • "For LMS 145, A Bone Flute At The British Museum." In ‘from The Museums Sequence.’ Homeland. Ed. Frank Stewart. Feature Ed. Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Honolulu, HI: Hawai’w UP, 1997. 36. [Manoa 9.1]
  • A poem paying tribute to a Māori bone flute exhibited in the British Museum.
  • "For 6742, a hei tiki at the British Museum." In ‘from The Museums Sequence.’ Homeland. Ed. Frank Stewart. Feature Ed. Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Honolulu, HI: Hawai’w UP, 1997. 36-37.
  • The poet addresses Manawa, a hei tiki housed in the British Museum, and reflects on the many hands that have touched and stroked the jade hei tiki.
  • "For one trophy of the Waikato War, now in an unnamed museum." In ‘from The Museums Sequence.’ Homeland. Ed. Frank Stewart. Feature Ed. Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Honolulu, HI: Hawai’w UP, 1997. 37.
  • The poet questions what events precipitated the dislocation of a Māori taonga from its original home to a foreign museum.

    Other

  • Alson, Sharon. "Talking to Polynesian Women: Part 1." Broadsheet 12 (1973): 7-9.
  • Interview with Ngahuia Volkering.
  • "Hawaiian Award For Feminist." MANA 1.8 (15 Sept. 1977): 3.
  • McNaughton, Iona. "Academic Shares Her Creativity." Dominion Sunday Times (24 Dec. 1989): 12.
  • "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku In Conversation With Elizabeth Eastmond And Priscilla Pitts." Antic 1 (June 1986): 44-55.
  • Jagose, Annamarie. "Local Accents." Listener 16 July 1990: 112.
  • Rosier, Pat. Broadsheet 176 (1990): 31.
  • Glover, Marewa. Rev. of Mana Wahine Māori, by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Broadsheet 192 (Summer 1991/92): 51-52. Rpt. in Been Around For Quite A While: Broadsheet: Twenty Years Of Writing From Broadsheet Magazine. Ed. P. Rosier. Auckland, N.Z.: Broadsheet, 1992. 304.
  • Arts North Magazine. Northern Regional Arts Council, (June 1993). No further details.
  • New Zealand Geographic. (Mar. 1990). No further details.
  • Art New Zealand 52 (June 1989). No further details.
  • Thomson, John. New Zealand Literature to 1977: A Guide to Information Sources. Vol. 30 in the American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide Ser. Detroit, USA: Gale Research, 1980. 120.