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Taiapa, Pine
(b Tikitiki, nr Gisborne, 1901; d Tikitiki, 1972). New Zealand Maori wood-carver. He was of Ngati Porou tribal descent. Taiapa began his artistic career in 1925, working on the Maori decorations of St Mary’s memorial church at Tikitiki. In the 1920s and early 1930s he attended the school for Maori arts established in Rotorua by Apirana Ngata. There he was given skilled instruction in the use of the adze as a major carving tool, and he went on to be the chief exponent of adze-carving in the Maori world. Between 1927 and 1940 Taiapa worked on 64 meeting-houses, and, after military service during World War II, he worked on a further 39 (1946–71). In the last 25 years of his life he taught hundreds of young people (mixed Maori and non-Maori) about Maori arts, both during the actual construction of his meeting-houses and, from 1934, at Te Aomarama, the Institute of Maori Carving at Rotorua. He was also a central figure in the renaissance of the Maori arts movement in the 1960s.
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