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    Jewellery as pepeha : contemporary jewellery practice informed by Māori inquiry : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts at Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2014) Wilkinson, Areta Rachael
    This thesis investigates and articulates an ethical Maori framework for New Zealand contemporary jewellery practice that represents a distinctive method of making, and thinking, unique to Te Waipounamu/Aotearoa New Zealand. Contemporary jewellery is an international applied art genre that self-consciously investigates the wearable object and the body as a site of reference, including related social contexts, such as ideas of preciousness, memento and heirloom. Currently a comprehensive analysis of contemporary jewellery practice embedded in whakapapa from Te Waipounamu/Aotearoa does not exist, and this thesis explores the implications of thinking about contemporary jewellery practice from a Kai Tahu, and Maori perspective through a taoka methodology. The metaphor of pepeha allows contemporary jewellery to be located within a Maori social context and a uniquely Maori system of knowing, by contextualising taoka/contemporary jewellery alongside oral narrative as statements of collective identity anchored in Te Ao Kai Tahu (a Kai Tahu worldview). The thesis asks: How can a contemporary jewellery practice be informed by narratives of whakapapa, whenua, kaika, and thus become taoka tuku iho?