A Special Collaboration with Aroha Avenue
The sole living designer of the Tino Rangatiratanga kara (flag), Linda Munn, and the team at Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust have teamed up with Aroha Avenue to launch this special collaboration – the Mana Motuhake/Self Determination box.
The Tino Rangatiratanga flag is an iconic art piece that has become the most powerful symbol of Māori identity and absolute sovereignty. Designed by Linda Munn, Hiraina Marsden and Jan Smith in 1989, the flag embodies our hopes and aspirations for the betterment of Māori culture and our enhanced wellbeing.
Linda and Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust are working to protect the mana of the Tino Rangatiratanga flag to ensure that Māori are always the beneficiaries of what the flag represents and that it is not misused and misappropriated.
This special collaboration ensures that these things are in place so know that in buying our box, you are respecting the intellectual property of the kara and supporting a kaupapa of mana motuhake, which means self-determination and control over one’s destiny.
Inside you’ll find Tino Rangatiratanga products signed by Linda, an accessible book on Te Tiriti, a beautifully designed drink bottle, and sunscreen to keep you hydrated and sun safe when you take up the call to hikoi for what you are passionate about.
“The kara Māori is symbolic of Mana Māori and has becom a tohu of Tino Rangatiratanga to tautoko a generation and future generations of iwi, hapū, whānau and mahi kaupapa Māori.” Nā Linda Munn.
Tino needs your tautoko
To further safeguard and protect our tohu from offshore manufacturers we need your help - even if it's sharing a link to this page - ngā mihi mō te tautoko!
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HISTORY
The Tino Rangatiratanga flag is a powerful symbol of Māori identity and self-determination. Designed by Linda Munn, Hiraina Marsden and Jan Smith in 1989, the flag embodies the kaupapa (movement) for the betterment of Māori culture and traditions.
In 1989 the idea of Māori being able to fly their own Kara (flag), was inspired by the First nations of Australia, who had flown their own sovereign flag since 1974. Te Kawariki ran a flag competition, from which the Tino Rangatiratanga Kara was born - it is of a kaupapa, a movement for the betterment of Māoridom.
DESIGN
Black represents Te Korekore the realm of Potential Being. It represents the long darkness, from whence the world emerged. It represents the heavens, the male element is formless, floating and passive.
White represents Te Ao Marama, the realm of Being and Light. It is the Physical World. White symbolises purity, harmony, enlightenment, balance and air rising.
The Koru, curling frond shape, represents the unfolding of new life, that everything is reborn and continues. It promises renewal and hope for the future.
The design can also be interpreted as a white cloud mass over Aotearoa.
Red represents Te Whei Ao, the realm of Coming into Being. It symbolises female, active, flashing, south, yelling, emergence, forests, land, gestation and spirals. Red is Papatuanuku, Earth Mother, the sustainer of all living things. Red is the colour of earth from which the first human was made.
The design represents the balance of natural forces with each other. To live life is to live with nature. To appreciate life is to understand nature.