Mead, Professor Sidney Moko Biography 1991

MEAD, Professor Sydney [Sidney] Moko
Professor of Maori, Victoria University of Wellington
Born Wairoa, 8 January 1927, son of Sydney Mead and Paranihia (née Emery)
Married June Walker, daughter of Mary and Raana Walker, 1949; three daughters
Educated: St Stephens, Te Aute College; Auckland Teachers’ College, 1944-45; Third Year Art Training, 1946; Diploma Teaching, Education Department, 1962; Auckland University,  Bachelor of Arts 1964, Master of Arts 1965 (Anthropology Prize 1965); University of Southern Illinois, Doctor of Philosophy 1968; Carnegie Commonwealth Scholarship 1965-67, Wenner-Gren Predoctoral Museum Fellowship 1967-68, Canadian Commonwealth Research Fellowship 1972-73, Elsdon Best Memorial Medal 1983, Pacific Arts Association Manu Daula (Frigate Bird) Award 1984
Itinerant Teacher, Maori arts and crafts in schools, 1947-51; Principal, Minginui, Waimarama, Whatawhata Primary Schools, 1957-63
Auckland University:  Assistant Lecturer 1963-65, Lecturer 1968-70, Senior Lecturer 1970-71;  Vis Associate Professor, McMaster University, Ham, Ontario, 1971-72, 1973-76; Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship, University of British Colombia,1972-73; Professor of Maori, Victoria University, 1977-91; anthropological field studies including ceremonial dancing among Pueblo Indians, New Mexico and Arizona 1966, study of Maori clothing, field survey of meeting houses in Mataatua area, New Zealand 1969, Art in Solomon Islands, Eastern Districts 1970-71, land confiscation in Bay of Plenty region, tribal reorganization, Maori art, biography of Ngati Awa chief
Member: Selection Panel, James Cook Fellowship Award 1977, New Zealand Council for Education Research 1978-83; Pacific Arts Association: Founding member, Vice-President 1978-84, President 1984-89; Member Polynesian Society 1984-89, Association of University Teachers 1984-89, Royal Society of New Zealand 1984-89, Te Matawhanui (Maori University Teachers Association) 1989-; Foundation Member: Maori Language Board (Wellington), Aotearoa Council, Bishopric of Aotearoa; Member, Board of Governors: Wellington East Girls College, St John’s Theological College; Foundation Chairman: Horouta-ki-Poneke Marae Society 1979, Ngati-Awa-ki-Poneke Corporation 1980-90; Member, Management Committee, Te Maori Exhibition, 1983-88; Foundation member, Chairman, Ngati Awa Trust Board, 1990; Chairman, Nga Tuara (Kaumatua Advisory Group), Iwi Transition Agency, 1989
Publications: Taniko Weaving, 1952; We Speak Maori, 1959; Ko te Tahae Nei ko Tawhaki, 1960, The Art of Maori Carving, 1961; Selected Readings in Maori (co-edited with Bruce Biggs and Pat Hohepa), 1963, 1967; He kohikohinga Aronui (edited with Bruce Biggs), 1964; The Art of Taaniko Weaving: Its Cultural Context, Style and Development, 1968; Traditional Maori Clothing, 1969; Portraits of the New Zealand Maori: Painted in 1844 by George French Angas (with G C Petersen), 1972
Editor of ‘Art of the Maori’ series; Exploring the Visual Art of Oceania (edited), 1979; Art and Artists in Oceania (edited with Bernie Kernot), 1983; Te Maori: Maori Art from New Zealand Collections (edited), 1984:  Te Toi Whakairo; The Art of Maori Carving, 1986; Magnificent Te Maori: Te Maori Whakahirahira, 1986
Address: 10 Spiers Street, Karori, Wellington