Kahutoi Te Kanawa

Kahutoi Mere Te Kanawa (born 1960)^[1] is a New Zealand Māori university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist.^[2][3] Her works have been collected and displayed both nationally and internationally.^[2] She has worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Otago and a curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.^[2] Te Kanawa is member of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Te Awa project team.^[4][5] This project uses the expertise of Māori specialists such as Te Kanawa to enrich the information on Māori taonga in the collection of the Museum.^[5]

Te Kanawa has tribal affiliations to Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui (including Ngāti Rārua) and Ngāti Tūwharetoa.^[6] She is the sister of Rangi Te Kanawa, daughter of Diggeress Te Kanawa and granddaughter of Dame Rangimārie Hetet.^[3][4]

• Smith, C. A., White, M., & Te Kanawa, K. (2011). The preservation of Māori textiles: Collaboration, research and cultural meaning. In Cultural Heritage/Cultural Identity–The Role of Conservation. Preprints of the 16th Triennial ICOM-CC Conference.
• Te Kanawa, K., (2009) Toi Maramatanga: a visual Māori art expression of meaning. Master of Arts thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland.
• Te Kanawa, K. (2006). Mai i te ao kohatu: weaving – an artform derived from mātauranga Māori as a gift from the ancestors. In Turoua Ngā Whetū Research Colloquium. Te Tumu – School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin.
• Wood, B., Henare, A., Lander, M., and Te Kanawa, K. (2003). Visiting the house of gifts: the 1998 ‘Maori’ exhibition at the British Museum. Journal of New Zealand Literature 21: 83–101.