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Pre-European Māori textiles from South Island New Zealand

Smith, Catherine Ann (University of Otago, 2014)
The study of archaeological textiles is commonly reported as a tool for illumination of technology, social process (gender, production, exchange, interaction) and cultural difference. While most interpretation of prehistoric ...
Advances in conservation of Māori textiles; analysis and identification

Smith, Catherine Ann; Lowe, Bronwyn J.; Paterson, Rachel A.
A number of new methods and technologies for investigating Māori textiles have emerged from ten years of research in the Department of Applied Sciences - Clothing and Textile Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New ...
Pre-European Maori textiles from South Island New Zealand

Smith, Catherine Ann; Laing, Raechel M; Walter, Richard
Re-examining conservation precepts - implications for conservation eductation

Scott, Marcelle; Smith, Catherine Ann
The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary nature of cultural materials conservation has been a prominent feature of the field’s discourse in recent decades. However, in considering the cross-cultural aspects of conservation ...
What’s in a Name? The Practice and Politics of Classifying Māori Textiles

Smith, Catherine Ann; Laing, Raechel M (Maney Publishing, 2011)
Textiles form an important part of Māori culture, of interest to Europeans since contact with New Zealand in 1642. The need to describe Māori textiles in English has determined the terminology chosen to describe them, ...
Ethics and practice: Australian and New Zealand conservation contexts

Smith, Catherine Ann; Scott, Marcelle (Elsevier, 2009)
Re-examining conservation precepts; implications for conservation education

Scott, Marcelle; Smith, Catherine Ann
In recognising a changing social future, this paper posits that the future relevance and sustainability of conservation is dependent on a re-evaluation of our professional pre-cepts, ethics, and working practices to more ...
Micro-computed tomography for plant identification in artefacts

Smith, Catherine Ann; Lowe, Bronwyn J.; McNoughton, Andrew
In New Zealand the identification of materials of construction of Māori textiles has important cultural and legal connotations. However the identification of aged and processed plant material in artefacts is difficult, ...
Identification of historical plant material using micro-computed tomography

Smith, Catherine Ann; Lowe, Bronwyn J.; Blair, Kate; Carr, Debra; McNaughton, Andrew (Maney Publishing, 2013)
This work investigates the use of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT, µCT) for identification of New Zealand plant leaf material from artefacts. Micro-computed tomography was explored as a result of difficulties in preparing ...
The preservation of Māori textiles: Collaboration, research and cultural meaning.

Smith, Catherine Ann; Te Kanawa, Kahutoi; White, Moira
Māori artefacts discovered in 1895 at Puketoi Station, Otago, South Island New Zealand, were re-examined using multiple methods to gather information of relevance and meaning to contemporary Māori culture. This paper ...