"Wahine Toa" began as an idea for an exhibition in 1979...The creation myths of the Māori are profoundly beautiful. They speak to us directly about birth and death, and about love - between man and woman, mother and child. In this remarkable body of work depicting the eight principal female protagonists in the myths - from Te Pō, the darkness before the world and all being, to Hinenuitepō, the goddess of death who claimed Māui as she claims the least daring of man - Robyn Kahukiwa has given us a brilliantly realised visual narrative in oil paintings and pencil drawings"--Preface (1983)