The wahakura from Te Ao Māori and the Gietkka from the Sami people of Sapmi, Northern Sweden: Indigenous baby sleeping vessels [Art work]
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Reihana-White, Hinewaimarama
Guttorm, G.
Black, Z.
Jasmine, T.H.
Guttorm, G.
Black, Z.
Jasmine, T.H.
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2024
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Sapmi (Northern Sweden)
Sweden
Aotearoa
New Zealand
Sami babies
Māori babies
babies
woven bassinets
bassinets
weaving
New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax)
indigenous
Sweden
Aotearoa
New Zealand
Sami babies
Māori babies
babies
woven bassinets
bassinets
weaving
New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax)
indigenous
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Reihana-White, T & Guttorm, G. (2024). Architecture of Aroha. [Wahakura and Giettka]. [Art work] Lulea Biennale, Sapmi, Sweden 2 March - 26 May
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6912
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Architecture of Aroha is a collaboration between Gunvor Guttorm, Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Inga Ravna Eira, Tanya Reihana White and Jasmine Te Hira, curated by Zoe Black. The project unfolds a dialogue between two objects that hold important cultural significance, the wahakura and the gietkka, baby sleeping vessels from Māori and Sámi communities respectively.
Within these Indigenous groups, the making of the sleeping vessel and its materiality is more than a craft, it’s an expression of ancestral wisdom about care and love and the interconnected world that brings nature, the land, makers, family, ancestors and the extended community together. These sleeping vessels are presented in this project as examples of architectural knowledge and to show the connections between how Indigenous spaces are constructed, across the world.
The wahakura is a baby sleeping vessel from te ao Māori (the Māori world) woven from harakeke – a plant with long sword-like fronds. While the gietkka has a long history, the wahakura is a relatively recent form. It does, however, draw on the enduring customary practice of raranga (weaving)
ROLES: Reihana-White, Tanya. (Artist), Guttorm, Gunvor. (Artist), Zoe, Black. (Curator), & Jasmine, Te Hira. (Curator)
VENUE AND TIMES: Lulea Biennale, Sapmi, Sweden 2 March - 26 May.
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