Kahutoi Te Kanawa

Kahutoi Mere Te Kanawa is a New Zealand Māori university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist. Her works have been collected and displayed both nationally and internationally. She has worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Otago and a curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Te Kanawa is member of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Te Awa project team. This project uses the expertise of Māori specialists such as Te Kanawa to enrich the information on Māori taonga in the collection of the Museum.

Personal life

Te Kanawa has tribal affiliations to Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. She is the sister of Rangi Te Kanawa, daughter of Diggeress Te Kanawa and granddaughter of Dame Rangimārie Hetet.

Smith, C. A., White, M., & Te Kanawa, K.. In Cultural Heritage/Cultural Identity–The Role of Conservation. Preprints of the 16th Triennial ICOM-CC Conference.
Te Kanawa, K., Toi Maramatanga: a visual Māori art expression of meaning. Master of Arts thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland.
Te Kanawa, K.. ' In Turoua Ngā Whetū Research Colloquium. Te Tumu – School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin.
Wood, B., Henare, A., Lander, M., and Te Kanawa, K.. ' Journal of New Zealand Literature 21: 83–101.