. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "33286726"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Te Maori (sometimes Te M\u0101ori in modern sources) was a watershed exhibition of M\u0101ori art in 1984 (later continued to 1985, 1986 and 1987). It is notable as the first occasion on which M\u0101ori art had been exhibited by M\u0101ori, and also the first occasion on which M\u0101ori art was shown internationally as art. In retrospect it is seen as a milestone in the M\u0101ori Renaissance. The project was driven by Secretary for Maori Affairs, Kara Puketapu, under the auspices of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council with funding from Mobil. Prominent M\u0101ori leader Hirini Moko Mead was co-curator of the exhibition."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1112927891"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "7788"^^ . . . "Te Maori"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Te Maori (sometimes Te M\u0101ori in modern sources) was a watershed exhibition of M\u0101ori art in 1984 (later continued to 1985, 1986 and 1987). It is notable as the first occasion on which M\u0101ori art had been exhibited by M\u0101ori, and also the first occasion on which M\u0101ori art was shown internationally as art. In retrospect it is seen as a milestone in the M\u0101ori Renaissance. In the colonial period, many M\u0101ori objects, including art, domestic objects and human remains (particularly Mokomokai) were widely collected by explorers, missionaries and scientists and were lost to the communities which had created them; largely they were lost to large European collection institutions such as the London Science Museum the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. This alienation meant that M\u0101ori regarded many P\u0101keha (Western) cultural institutions with considerable skepticism and overcoming this skepticism to allow objects to be borrowed for exhibition made Te Maori a milestone. The project was driven by Secretary for Maori Affairs, Kara Puketapu, under the auspices of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council with funding from Mobil. Prominent M\u0101ori leader Hirini Moko Mead was co-curator of the exhibition. The exhibition started at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York on 10 September 1984. Part of the exhibition was carefully held practices and values guided by M\u0101ori tikanga. This included a dawn ceremony, traditional karakia, speeches in the M\u0101ori language, waiata and kapa haka. Mead described the effect at the prestigious institution of the Met, \"It did much to make tikanga M\u0101ori more acceptable not only to the population at large of Aotearoa but, more importantly, among our own people.\" In the United States, Te Maori was also presented at Saint Louis Art Museum (February\u2013May 1985), the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco (July\u2013September 1985), and the Field Museum in Chicago (March\u2013June 1986). Te Maori: Te Hokinga Mai, the New Zealand leg of the exhibition, toured Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and finally ended in Auckland on 10 September 1987, three years to the day after opening at the Met. The exhibition was very well received, both at home and abroad. The impact of the exhibition is described by the late museum ethnologist Robert Neich: The effect of Te M\u0101ori has been so pervasive that its influence cannot be avoided. (Robert Neich 1985)"@en . .