Kahutoi Te Kanawa

{{Short description|New Zealand university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist (born 1960)}}

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| name = Kahutoi Te Kanawa

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| birth_date = 1960

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| nationality = New Zealand

| occupation = University teacher, weaver and textile artist

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| known_for = weaving and artworks

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| mother = Diggeress Te Kanawa

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Kahutoi Mere Te Kanawa (born 1960){{Cite web |title=Kanawa, Kahutoi Te |url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/8057/kahutoi-te-kanawa |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205035924/https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/8057/kahutoi-te-kanawa |archive-date=5 February 2024 |access-date=6 January 2021 |website=Find New Zealand Artists}} is a New Zealand Māori university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist.{{Cite journal |last=Tipa |first=Rob |date=October 2006 |title=Weaving Magic |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagomagazine/otago005603.pdf |url-status=live |journal=University of Otago Magazine |publisher=University of Otago |volume= |issue=15 |pages=23–25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205040339/https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/274695/download-issue-15-005603.pdf |archive-date=5 February 2024 |access-date=4 February 2024}}{{Cite journal |last=Kim |first=Whizy |date=June 2019 |others=Photography by Erica Sinclair |title=People of the Land |url=https://www.whizykim.com/cover-story |url-status=dead |journal=Morning Calm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228231239/https://www.whizykim.com/cover-story |archive-date=28 December 2020}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Byrt |first=Anthony |date=28 November 2018 |title=Unwinding colonial legacies: Auckland Museum's transformation |url=https://www.metromag.co.nz/arts/arts-art-city/unwinding-colonial-legacies-auckland-museums-transformation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022152646/https://www.metromag.co.nz/arts/arts-art-city/unwinding-colonial-legacies-auckland-museums-transformation |archive-date=22 October 2021 |work=Metro Magazine}}{{Cite news |last= |date=21 September 2020 |others=Produced by Auckland War Memorial Museum |title=Meet: The Te Awe Team |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-story-of-te-awe/story/2018761051/meet-the-te-awe-team |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119015303/https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-story-of-te-awe/story/2018761051/meet-the-te-awe-team |archive-date=19 November 2023 |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=Radio New Zealand}} 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.