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Line 1: {{Use dmy dates\|date=July 2019}} '''Pineamine "Pine" Taiapa''' (1901–1972) was a notable New Zealand wood carver, farmer, rehabilitation officer, writer and genealogist.<ref> "the heART of the matter" BWX Productions (Video 2016), Wellington, NZ. L & J Bieringa</ref> ▼ {{Infobox artist \| birth_date = 1901 \| death_date = 1972 \| nationality = New Zealand \| education = [[Te Aute College]], [[New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute]] \| known_for = Māori carving on [[wharenui]] }} ▲'''Pineamine "Pine" Taiapa''' (1901–1972) was a notable [[New Zealand]] wood carver, farmer, rehabilitation officer, writer and genealogist.<ref> "the heART of the matter" BWX Productions (Video 2016), Wellington, NZ. L & J Bieringa</ref> He was one of the first students of the [[New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute\|School of Māori Arts]] in [[Rotorua]] under [[Āpirana Ngata]]. As a carver he was part of over ninety-nine [[wharenui]] ([[Māori people\|Māori]] meeting houses) around New Zealand. == Biography == Taiapa was born in [[Tikitiki]], [[North Island\|East Coast]], [[New Zealand]] in 1901, to Tamati Taiapa and Maraea Iritawa Taiapa (née Potae).<ref> Geni Profile - https://www.geni.com/people/Pineamine-Taiapa/6000000077988628493 </ref> Of [[Māori people\|Māori]] descent, he identified with the [[Ngati Porou]] [[iwi]]. His secondary school education was at [[Te Aute College]] in [[Hawke's Bay\|Hawkes Bay]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book \|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905937385 \|title=Māori carving : the art of preserving Māori history. \|date=2015 \|others=Huia Publishers \|isbn=978-1-77550-191-6 \|location=Wellington \|oclc=905937385}}</ref> His earliest carving teacher was master-carver Hone Ngatoto who invited him to work alongside him on the [[Tikitiki]] War Memorial Church.<ref name=":0" /> The building of this memorial St Mary's church in Tikitiki was instigated by Ngāti Porou leader [[Āpirana Ngata]] in the early 1920s and is regarded as 'one of the most beautiful Māori churches in New Zealand'.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=1 May 2020 \|title=Tikitiki church war memorial \|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/tikitiki-church-war-memorial \|access-date=2022-11-26 \|website=NZ History \|language=en-NZ}}</ref> Taiapa went on to be one of the first students under Āpirana Ngata at the ~~school~~School of Māori Arts in Rotorua in 1927 which became the [[New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute]]. Between 1947 and 1940 Taiapa worked on over sixty [[wharenui]] (~~carved~~ meeting houses).<ref name=":0" /> Taiapa was then a soldier in World War II, part of the [[Māori Battalion]]. On his return he went back to carving and worked on a further thirty-nine wharenui.<ref name=":0" /> == Personal life and death == He married Mereaira Te Ruawai Taiapa, by whom he had a child. His younger brother [[Hone Taiapa]] was also a carver.<ref name="DNZB Taiapa">{{DNZB\|title=Pineamine Taiapa\|first= Angela\|last= Ballara\|id=4t3\|accessdate=1 December 2011}}</ref> He died in [[Tikitiki]] on ~~the 9th of~~9 February 1972, age 70. ==References== Line 20 ⟶ 29: [[Category:1901 births]] [[Category:1972 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century New Zealand farmers]] [[Category:New Zealand Māori farmers]] [[Category:New Zealand Māori carvers]] [[Category:New Zealand genealogists]] [[Category:Ngāti Porou people]] [[Category:20th-century New Zealand historians]] [[Category:People educated at Te Aute College]]