Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 21, 2016 17:49:24 GMT 12
STORE SELLS 'PROFOUNDLY HURTFUL' MAORI SHOWER CURTAINS DEPICTING TRIBAL LEADERS
An online store has been selling culturally offensive shower curtains depicting historic images of Maori.
The shower curtains include depictions of a Maori fort under attack by colonial forces, copies of portraits by Goldie, a face mask and images of tribal leaders.
Art historian Ngahuia Te Awekotuku told RNZ the Maori culture was being exploited and the misappropriation of imagery was appalling.
Maori imagery on teatowels was bad enough, she said.
"To actually see Wiremu Kingi as a shower person is absolutely extraordinary and profoundly hurtful.
"In traditional cultural terms, in the context of tikanga Maori of Maori values around the sanctity of the body and the intimacy of the bathroom, to have an ancestor as a shower curtain is profoundly insulting."
But the system did not offer protection and the Government had done nothing to advance cultural protection, he said…..
www.stuff.co.nz/business/81277960/Store-sells-profoundly-hurtful-Maori-shower-curtains-depicting-tribal-leaders
An online store has been selling culturally offensive shower curtains depicting historic images of Maori.
The shower curtains include depictions of a Maori fort under attack by colonial forces, copies of portraits by Goldie, a face mask and images of tribal leaders.
Art historian Ngahuia Te Awekotuku told RNZ the Maori culture was being exploited and the misappropriation of imagery was appalling.
Maori imagery on teatowels was bad enough, she said.
"To actually see Wiremu Kingi as a shower person is absolutely extraordinary and profoundly hurtful.
"In traditional cultural terms, in the context of tikanga Maori of Maori values around the sanctity of the body and the intimacy of the bathroom, to have an ancestor as a shower curtain is profoundly insulting."
But the system did not offer protection and the Government had done nothing to advance cultural protection, he said…..
www.stuff.co.nz/business/81277960/Store-sells-profoundly-hurtful-Maori-shower-curtains-depicting-tribal-leaders