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Word: maoris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accomplished most after he had broken with his family, settled in. the South Seas. Using only the most primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose in his designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gauguin Prints | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks. Worst shot: a group of natives with their backs to the camera yammering around a pile of holy sticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...this exhibition certain pieces, such as the Maori ancestor god or the New Ireland cult mask, bear a definite relation to the ethnic type, yet are far removed from realistic sculpture as we understand it. Others, such as the Congo chief's stool or the Congo woman holding a bowl, bear an even remoter resemblance, though dynamic and significant works...

Author: By F. R. P., | Title: Collections and Critiques | 5/9/1934 | See Source »

...humanity, received thousands of suggestions, gave the prize to a Columbia University psychology professor who had proposed a C. Harold Smith Institute of Mental Hygiene. But he never said whether he would carry out the plan. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand, fell in love with a Maori maiden, narrowly escaped torture and death at the hands of her tribe, went to the U. S., made a fortune, lived to despise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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