Word: maori
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...Creative connectivity was the festival's theme. Some artists, like Samoan-New Zealander Graham Fletcher, found the similarities between cultures more striking than their differences. Sharing accommodation with Maori and Tongan artists in the New Zealand compound, "We spent all night talking, basically," Fletcher recalls. "It's amazing the connection between all of our languages and customs and everything. We're much closer than we think...
...three festivals he's attended have introduced him to a wider network of artistic influence. "We are the most western part of the Pacific, which is tied together through traditional designs," says the Thursday Island-born artist, who has traced Torres Strait motifs back to the New Zealand Maori via "the Solomon Islands, Palau and across to Hawaii...
...After prison he returned to the ring with facial tattoos of a Maori warrior, and images of Mao and Che on his body. But those were only emblems of the focused ferocity that used to be inside him, of the burning concentration that made him a champ. Tyson lost his last chance at a championship by notoriously snacking on Evander Holyfield's ear. A couple years later, he ended his boxing career in the most humiliating way: not on his feet, or on his back, but on a stool, refusing to come out and fight for the seventh round against...
TETE-A-TETE The tattooed head of a Maori warrior sparked debate over human-body parts as art after the French government barred a natural-history museum from returning the head to New Zealand, where the Maori are from...
...CRUX A macabre colonial collecting tradition has left dozens of Maori heads on display around the world, but France worries about setting a precedent for returning other human remains, like mummies. If returned, the head will be buried--and, say opponents of repatriation, lost to history...