Anna McAllister

Te Awa Atua is an assertion of divine femininity and a repositioning of ikura to signal wāhine as one of the most powerful things in te ao Māori.The perceptions we currently have about ikura, are a result of past and on-going colonisation; this is not the way we felt before colonisation happened. Te Awa Atua comes off the back of many important research into ikura, namely by, Ngāhuia Murphy.