Te Mahi Kete Combat / defence skills & manuals An empowering and exhilarating look

An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us

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• Fifteen unruly kids

no-nonsense book

“A handy and straightforward guide

Te Mahi Kete Combat / defence skills & manuals An empowering and exhilarating lookAnyone can learn to make a plaited kete, one of the oldest and most popular of Maori art forms, from the leaves of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax). Te Mahi Kete gives detailed, step by step instructions, illustrated with numerous line drawings and black and white photographs, for preparing the flax and plaiting two simple types of kete. It also shows variations in technique for starting and finishing, making the handles and incorporating a