Collection: Bone Carving

Bone Carving has been a part of Māori Culture for generations. As a traditionally oral culture, many of our stories, myths, practices and language have been passed to the next generation from previous generations. So bone carving was a way to not only adorn ourselves, but to identify, protect affirm, and award our people and a means with which to capture the stories of our past.

Now we are able to write and convey culture and language through words, written and spoken, music, art and now technology. However, we hold fast to the traditions of our predecessors.