My First Ikura Steel Tukutuku is a traditional Maaori

Tukutuku is a traditional Maaori artform used for storytelling

These prints were created by Tahu-Pōtiki Te Maro-Doran for Mita Creative

Set of 4 in a nylon washbag

and lends character to this lovely journal

By allowing myself that bit of time to create I had inadvertently awakened a bit of a creative monster

My First Ikura Steel Tukutuku is a traditional MaaoriA celebration of whakapapa, whinetanga and whenua. This is a tender, empowering story of a khines first ikura her period and the love, knowledge and ceremony shared by her whnau. From the rkau planted when she was born, to the karakia shared when she gifts her first blood back to the whenua, she learns that her body, her whakapapa and her whinetanga are sacred. A taonga for our uri whakaheke. This is the first childrens story in Aotearoa written about