The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

$177

The Blue Privilege. The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. by Harry Sengl.

Publisher: Auckland Richards / Collins 1980. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Very good hardback with good jacket. Blue cloth boards with minor rubbing and bumping to spine ends. Binding tight, foxing to end-papers and edges, colour plates are very good. No owner inscriptions. The jacket has creasing and chipping to edges with a closed tear to top edge, foxing to reverse side. Some fading small loss to spine.

Portrait artist Harry Sengl came to NZ from Germany in 1969 and his interest in Maori tattooing was ignited when he encountered his "first kuia with a moko" in 1972. In subsequent years he travelled widely in NZ seeking out elderly kuia (old lady) with "moko" (tattoo) willing to sit for the portraits presented in this fine book. Although he met with some refusals, he was able to paint 34 of these elderly women, each with a genuine, traditional chin and lip tattoo, with 33 of the paintings included in the text block of "The Blue Privilege " and the other appearing as the frontispiece. Each colour image is full page with a brief biography of the subject on the facing page. (One of the subject kuia was believed to be more than 120 years old at the time of the painting.) In addition to these paintings the end-papers carry close-up, detail sketches of each tattoo, other sketches show implements used for tattooing, traditional carvings, ornaments and weapons. In two complementary chapters Merimeri Penfold and D R Simmons respectively reflect on the place of moko in Maori community and the techniques used in creating a moko. Harry Sengl's book and his paintings are treasured reminders of that last generation

The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
The Blue Privilege: The Last Tattooed Maori Women, Te Kuia Moko. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
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