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  • The council's kowhaiwhai pattern will be sandblasted around its lower section
  • I love in recent years how it increasingly boldly speaks across cultures and traditions while still being firmly rooted in extending the kowhaiwhai pattern of mangopare.
  • You see, I took photos of flowering kowhai trees sophora microphylla last week as evidence of spring in New Zealand, for yellow is one of the most striking colours of our spring - it sparkles against new green growth and dew drops, however cold the days might still be right up to the middle of the season. Archive 2008-11-01
  • The mangopare kowhaiwhai design on the rafters represents a hammerhead shark, a species which is very hard to kill and has become the symbol of bravery.
  • Her garment Toi Aotearoa, inspired by the patterns in carving, weaving and kowhaiwhai (Maori painted scroll ornamentation), is also a finalist in the South Pacific section at the World of Wearable Art awards.
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  • Because they eat the new growth they have destroyed large areas of native rata, totara, titoki, kowhai and other species.
  • At the end of the book, a kowhai is planted, a reminder of the bush that once covered the hill.
  • She wrote in a letter that the pleasure of living above Bridger Park, with its line of flowering golden kowhai next to the stream, was reward enough.
  • Kowhais, kauris, kanukas, lacebarks, lemonwoods, and other species surround the house lawns while older tanekahas and pines define the top boundary with Kauri Grove.
  • Kowhaiwhai lends itself to being able to interweave the social, political and economic forces we face today in Aotearoa.
  • This morning I looked out the kitchen window while preparing the deified first coffee of the day, expecting to see the gorgeous ochre and sunshine yellow bells of the kowhai. Archive 2008-11-01
  • Sometimes you'll see tiki or manaia or different kowhaiwhai forms coming through it.
  • Lines of scripture, the great white bird Taiamai, kowhaiwhai painting and gang patches are elegantly arrayed across fields of utter blackness in these works, a blackness that points both to creation and apocalypse.
  • Plants from last year that are coming on are more kowhai, totora, wineberry, manuka and ngaios.
  • A kowhai tree has been planted at the Albany campus in memory of Dr Michael McCool. Latest Massey News
  • To see a stand of mature red beech and also kowhai, fuchsia and rata trees choose Bob's Cove Bridle Track, a walk that takes 1.5 hours.
  • Since then we have planted cabbage trees, flaxes, saltmarsh ribbonwoods, kowhais, ngaios, mahoes, matais, podocarps, kahikateas, manukas, wineberries, toitois and olearias in their thousands.
  • Feedback led to the provision of four competing flavours: pineapple custard, banana French toast, kowhai honey and lemon tart. The Inspiration Room? | Daily
  • Tell that to the kowhai, though, which I thought flowered throughout spring. Archive 2008-11-01
  • You'll see different kowhaiwhai forms coming through.
  • His work followed that of his great-grandfather, who adopted European and American influences in his kowhaiwhai work on East Coast whare nui.
  • Lampton Quay is decorated with slightly over-ripe kowhai trees in full bloom; the petals trampled into the street by the suits, and what's left on the trees disheveled by the spring rains. The wellingtonista - a blog about wellington, new zealand
  • We have money set aside to buy more suitable replacement trees, such as kowhais, winter-flowering cherries and New Zealand native lacebarks and titokis.
  • Dr Eleanor Rimoldi, one of Dr Michael McCool's doctoral supervisors, places soil around a kowhai tree planted in his honour. Latest Massey News
  • To see a stand of mature red beech and also kowhai, fuchsia and rata trees choose Bob's Cove Bridle Track, a walk that takes 1.5 hours return.
  • He has fashioned a unique identity for himself in his exploration of the relevance of kowhaiwhai painting here today.
  • He is regenerating mahoe, karaka (called kopi in the Chathams), ribbonwood, matipo, karamu, nikau palms, lancewoods, and kowhai.
  • The review really opened up the work for me, in relation to conventions of kowhaiwhai.
  • He is regenerating mahoe, karaka (called kopi in the Chathams), ribbonwood, matipo, karamu, nikau palms, lancewoods, and kowhai.

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