About our New Zealand Maori gift store

Kia ora! Our Christchurch gift box company present genuine Maori arts and crafts made in New Zealand for your cultural gift giving pleasure! We display a choice of harakeke flowers and kete (baskets), bone and wood carvings, clothing, pottery, masks, Maori dolls, jewellery and even very special award winning wines from Tohu, NZ’s only Maori winery! The “Maori” category our www.giftboxes.co.nz website shows Maori made gifts with authentic designs from NZ’s indigenous race such as Infinity Twist, Tiki, Moko and other Tattoo patterns and some symbolising mythology. The clothing refers to T shirts, aprons and trousers whilst the pottery represents gourd style vessels, waka and koru decorated crockery. These creations from The Beautiful Box Company include handcarved, handprinted, handcrafted or handthrown goods from locally sourced natural materials! Our website’s whole range of gifts are suitable for koha so send us an order for us to pack and post a present in a gift-box on your behalf, with your own message, to someone you care about or wish to impress such as a corporate client. We can send a giftbox package or giftboxed parcel overseas or for delivery within New Zealand.

Hand made items of flax, fabric and clay identify with and reflect the rich cultural background of New Zealand’s proud Pacific Polynesian native race. The intricate patterns carved into pottery and wood or printed onto fabric are created from intuition and the basic inborn instinct of their makers. The items offered echo images from nature – the koru curl of the fern frond, the colours and patterns of paua or the tribal designs of previous generations. Such gifts of taonga are not simply souvenirs but portray an important part of the New Zealand way of life. True gift-boxes from Aotearoa!

We proudly offer Caroline’s distinctive hand-made chiffon apron top hand-printed with an original Maori design plus the ever popular printed Strydes pants with favourite furl patterns and colours of nature. Tracey has dressed an anatomically correct plastic doll in stylised Maori traditional clothing. Now named Waiariki and Tamariki, the dolls have been given glossy black hair, flax and fabric clothes, many accessories and a tattoo treatment as well as lots of love! Paua decorates Aroha’s harakeke flowers and her attractive flax shoulder kete have paua or greenstone (pounamou or jade) fixings. The fabulous quality Tshirts from Glowing Sky have an authentic ethnic tattoo design and are guaranteed printed by Maori. There are some fantastically clever wooden masks designed and handmade by Lee’s Chamblett Design evocative of the wonderful Manaia and Maui carvings on Te Papa Museum’s wharenui and Phyllis’s lovely pit fired ceramics recreate gourd vessels (hue) or glazed small abandoned waka. There’s stylised kitchen and dining pottery as well as koru decorated plates and superior Kiwi iconic jewelry carvings made by craftspeople in different parts of the country. A unisex copper Tiki pendant and intriguing modern necklets of velvet ribbons, with matching earrings utilizing old NZ stamps of well known Maori designs.

Our very special Te Whare box is unique as we have worked closely with Maori in its N.Z. manufacture. With respect we have produced a kitset, with cut out sheets of card, which can be made up after receipt into an appealing meeting house. The artwork printed onto the box is by Maori artists depicting thatched flax and elaborately carved amo, maihi, and koruru. On line shopping of our gift boxes website uses a secure banking server for your safe and easy on-line purchase. Nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi! Enjoy!