Galleries of Maoriland
Māori objects and images of Māori were closely connected in New Zealand's art and collecting culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While the received art history of the period positions Māori as passive victims of colonialism, memorialised in galleries of the dying race, Roger Blackley’s research identifies the activities and motives of Māori participants within this culture. By exploring the intersections of art and ethnological collecting, and especially by including Māori as participants and agents, Galleries of Maoriland enables an enhanced view of the transactions of the colonial art world.
Galleries of Maoriland is published by Auckland University Press