Rangi Te Kanawa

Rangituatahi Te Kanawa (married name Rangi Warnes) is a New Zealand textile conservator and weaver.[1] She is affiliated with the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi.[1]

Rangi Te Kanawa
Born
Rangituatahi Te Kanawa
NationalityNew Zealand
Other namesRangi Warnes
OccupationMuseum professional, weaver
Known forMāori textile research and conservation
Parent(s)

Biography

Te Kanawa received a scholarship from the Department of Internal Affairs to train in conservation of textiles. The committee of the Aotearoa Moananui a Kiwa Weavers were keen for Māori to be involved in the conservation of Māori textile artefacts held by museums and other cultural institutions. Her introductory training on conservation of cultural material was in Canberra, after which she completed a year of pre-training at the conservation unit of the National Museum in Wellington. As a prerequisite of the three-year Conservation in Cultural Materials course at Canberra University, she also had to pass sixth-form chemistry, which she did through Wellington Boys' High School. The degree was followed by a six-month internship at the Textile Conservation Centre, Hampton Court Palace, and time at the British Museum.[2]

Te Kanawa works at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) and specialises in the conservation of and research about Māori textiles.[3][4] She has been collaborating with a GNS forensic scientist on a project called the 'Whakapapa of Paru' to identify the provenance of cloaks in Te Papa's archives.[5] Weaving by Te Kanawa has also been collected by Te Papa.[6] Te Kanawa is a member of the New Zealand conservators of cultural materials association.[7]

Family

Te Kanawa is the daughter of Diggeress Te Kanawa and the granddaughter of Dame Rangimarie Hetet.[8]

Publications
  • Blair, K. & Te Kanawa, R., The Conservation of Māori Textiles in Aotearoa New Zealand. Surface Design Journal, (2020) Vol. 44 No. 4, pp. 40–44
  • Hartnup, K., Huynen, L.,Te Kanawa, R., Shepherd, L.D., Millar, C.D., Lambert, D.M. & Ancient, DNA Recovers the Origins of Māori Feather Cloaks Molecular Biology and Evolution (October 2011) vol. 28 issue 10 pp. 2741–2750

References
  1. "Rangi Te Kanawa - Conserving textiles". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  2. "Rangi Warnes - Conservator". Aotearoa Moananui A Kiwa Weavers. 16: 8. September 1992.
  3. "Black is back". Science Learning Hub. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  4. "Textile symposium gets back to nature". www.massey.ac.nz. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  5. "Unlocking mysteries". Heritage New Zealand: 25–27. Winter 2017.
  6. "Rangituatahi Te Kanawa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  7. "Rangi Te Kanawa". New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Materials. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  8. Collins, Simon (9 September 2002). "Traditional Maori know-how key to exciting future". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
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