Tapu Te Ranga Marae

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Tapu Te Ranga Marae is located in Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand.

Tapu Te Ranga Motu

1 Greetings
2 Marae
3 NZ Heritage Site
4 Buildings
5 Residents
6 Art
7 Gallery
8 See also
9 References

[edit] Greetings

Tena koutou e nga hau e wha…Greetings people of the four winds.

[edit] Marae

Tapu Te Ranga Marae is a living Marae. It is the home of Bruce Stewart, his family and their descendants and anyone else who desires to live in a sharing way.

Island Bay - Tapu Te Ranga Motu

[edit] NZ Heritage Site

The Marae is listed as a Heritage site.

View across the rocks south of Tapu Te Ranga Motu to Te Waipounamu

[edit] Buildings

The main Tupuna Whare (ancestral house) is Parehinetai o Waitaha. The Whare rambles up the hill on many levels, a strong social, environmental and artistic statement. She was built out of need by young maori unemployed.

'They who build The Whare are built by the Whare' is the whakatauki (proverb).

[edit] Residents

Bruce Stewart, of Ngati Raukawa, Te Arawa, is a fiction writer and dramatist who resides at Tapu Te Ranga Marae.

[edit] Art

"In 1998 Bruce Stewart, rangatira of Tapu Te Ranga marae in Island Bay, Wellington asked me for artwork for the new Whare Wahine, Ukaipo. Te Waka Toi, the Maori arm of Creative New Zealand, gave me a generous grant to enable me to undertake this work, For me, a woman artist of Maori descent, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To be involved with the making of artworks for a whare was an honour and a privilege. It was doubly signigicant for the degree of involvement in creation of a house that is limited to men in many iwi. It took about 18 months to create the pou and to complete the painting."Robyn Kahukiwa -excerpt from the book The Art of Robyn Kahukiwa.