Diaries & Calendars

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This stunning CD desk calendar showcases taonga tuku iho (ancestral Maori treasures) from Te Papa's collections. The taonga in this calendar include a putatara or trumpet, an ornamental comb made from bone and paua, an eel trap woven from vines and harakeke (New Zealand flax), a selection of fishing tools made from paua shell, wood and bone and examples of the extraordinary carving that Maori are known for.

Showcases major New Zealand art works and beautiful items from the museum's beloved collections. This year, the theme is 'celebrations', and as ever, the artists featured read as a real who's who of NZ art and design - McCahon, Angus, Kileen, Noble...the list goes on and on! And the images selected evoke our landscape, our people and our iconic country - both historically and now. First published July 2009.

Matariki is the ever-popular 'Maori New Year', and Te Papa's Matariki Maramataka is the perfect way to mark its beginning - as well as celebrating New Zealand's unique indigenous culture and natural world all through the year. The calendar runs from June 2009, when the star formation known as Matariki (the Pleiades) officially appears in the sky, through to May 2010. Each tribe had its own lore around Matariki, a time for considering the rhythms of the land and how to protect and sustain resources. Connected with this were the prot... read more

Sold Out - No Longer Available The annual Te Papa Art calendar showcases major New Zealand artworks from the museum's treasured collections. This year, the theme is 'celebrations', in honour of the museum's 10-year anniversary in 2008. Featuring artists such as Rita Angus, Max Gimblett and Pat Hanley, it's a real 'who's who?' of New Zealand Art.

The taonga, or treasures illustrated in this calendar are some of the many thousands of precious Maori objects held in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.Included here are pieces in bone, stone, and pounamu (jade), pou from traditional buildings, the sternpost from a waka (war canoe), a cloak woven with brightly coloured feathers, an ancient hei tiki, ceremonial toki (adzes) and many examples of the rich carving tradition Maori are known for. All are taonga tuku iho, or ancestral treasures, representing ... read more

Out of Print. November 2005. These popular products showcase the best of New Zealand art and beautiful Museum collection items. Major New Zealand artists are represented, including Colin McCahon, Rita Angus, Don Binney, Tony Fomison, and Brian Brake. Their paintings and photographs evoke our landscape, our people, and our times - both historical and modern. The Te Papa Art Diary and calendars are beautifully reproduced in full colour and are the only ones in New Zealand to feature so many of our country

The annual Te Papa diaries showcase major New Zealand art works and beautiful items from the museum?s beloved collections. This year, the theme is 'landmarks', and the diary will surprise readers with its bright, rare and varied selection. As ever, the artists featured read as a real who?s who of NZ art and design - McCahon, Angus, Woollaston, Binney...and the images selected evoke our landscape, our people and our iconic country - both historically and now. First published July 2006.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The annual Te Papa diaries showcase major New Zealand art works and beautiful items from the museum's beloved collections. This year, the theme is 'landmarks', and the diary will surprise readers with its bright, rare and varied selection. As ever, the artists featured read as a real who's who of NZ art and design - McCahon, Angus, Woollaston, Binney...and the images selected evoke our landscape, our people and our iconic country - both historically a... read more

The popular annual modern-day calendar of M

The Aotearoa New Zealand Children's Literature Charitable Trust was founded by a group of enthusiastic professionals in the field of children's literature. The Trust has been set up to reserve and promote New Zealand's Children's literature. Te Tai Tamariki will bring children, writers and illustrators together in a unique environment of creativity, literature and art.

A contemporary designed birthday book that is ideal for jotting down birthdays and significant dates of loved ones. Includes information on star signs, modern wedding anniversary gifts and Chinese horoscope signs.

40pp 305 x 355mm saddle stitched with hole punch for hanging. 90+ Colour Photos

Specially created to accompany the guidebook series. You can recreate your own journey with diary entries, photographs and even a pressed flower from Ithilien or a leaf from Rivendell....

Fresh from Mark McDonough's kitchen at Zarbo Deli and Caf

Sold Out With a foreword from the Director of English PEN, The Granta Diary for 2008 is a colourful history of censorship and literary suppression, featuring the covers of books that have been banned by governments, courts and churches in the long struggle to prevent people reading what was deemed bad for them. We know about the trial for obscenity that followed the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960, but other titles may come as a surprise: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China in 1931 because it incl... read more

The fourth Granta Diary for 2007 features original book jackets from the crime fiction genre. The Granta Diary 2007 features original book jackets from some of the world's best-known and loved crime books - from A is for Alibi to Devil in a Blue Dress, Murder at the Vicarage to Pop. 1280. Fifty three striking book jacket designs in full colour, with important dates for life and literature in the year ahead: On 4 May Sherlock Holmes meets Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls; On 15 October Gerard Etienne's body is found in the offi... read more

Featuring favourite jacket designs from great books that have inspired films. Lists Oscar and Bafta winners, key dates (from Waitangi Day to the day Willy Wonka gave a tour of his chocolate factory) and other useful information.

The book-lover's diary with important dates for life and literature This is a diary for those who like books, write books and make books, containing 52 striking book jacket designs in full colour-favourites chosen by Granta's editors from 100 years of publishing history, and important dates for life and literature in the year ahead.

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