tukutuku
/ˈtuːkuːtuːkuː/noun [mass noun] NZ
1Ornamental woven latticework panels used for decoration, particularly on the walls of a Maori meeting house: there is barely a patch of wall that hasn’t been carved or covered with tukutuku...
- The artist's "The What Is and the What Is Not" plays with the binary codes of computer technology, suggesting the tukutuku of a whare.
- The church was carved by local carvers, and local weavers completed the tukutuku.
- The tukutuku were woven from pingao, a natural-coloured plant found in sand dunes, and keikie from the forest—an epiphyte that grows in the forks of trees.
1.1The Maori art or practice of weaving ornamental latticework panels: her expertise is in tukutuku...
- New innovations reveal the clever adaptation of tukutuku to make fire screens, glass-covered tabletops, and room dividers.
- Like many Maori arts, the art of tukutuku came perilously close to being lost.
- His specific interest in tukutuku was such that he designed panels himself.
Origin
Early 20th century: Maori.
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