gift on" to her descendants and the artists "of tomorrow." More provocatively, given weaving's cultural significance within traditional Māori culture and the connection between traditional art practices and Māori sociocultural identity, while presenting some of her more recent work Puketapu-Hetet discusses the need to adopt new practices, e.g., the use of new materials in light of the scarcity of traditional plants, such as harakeke/flax. A survey exhibition of the work of Erenora Puketapu-Hetet and Rangi Hetet, Legacy: The Art of Rangi Hetet and Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, was staged at The Dowse Art Museum in 2016. Robin Greenberg's Mo te Iwi: Carving for the People (2019) follows preparations for this exhibition; along with its focus on Rangi Hetet's work, this film again shows how the art form is learned and shared within family and community as a whole. As Lillian Hetet, Erenora and Rangi's daughter says in Mo te Iwi, "Carving does not exist alone, just as a skill. It exists within a whole body of knowledge and that body of knowledge exists and is held by a whole community of people, by a whole nationhood of people." Awards and recognitions In 1990, Puketapu-Hetet was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. She was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2002 New Year Honours, for services to weaving. She was appointed to the board of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute in 2004. She was a member of the Queen Elizabeth Arts Council of New Zealand. Publications Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, Maori weaving, Auckland: Pitman, 1989 References External links Erenora Puketapu-Hetet (1941–2006) discusses her life as a weaver, video interview by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Weaver Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, Te Atiawa, text interview by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Map of artworks by Erenora Puketapu-Hetet and Rangi Hetet on public display 1941 births 2006 deaths Te Āti Awa people New Zealand Māori writers People associated with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa New Zealand Māori weavers Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit New Zealand women artists 20th-century New Zealand writers New Zealand Māori women Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family Women textile artists 20th-century New Zealand women writers