Kahutoi Mere Te Kanawa (born 1960)[1] is a New Zealand Māori university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist.
[2][3] Her works have been collected and displayed both nationally and internationally.
[2] She has worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Otago and a curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
[4][5] 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.
[6] She is the sister of Rangi Te Kanawa, daughter of Diggeress Te Kanawa and granddaughter of Dame Rangimārie Hetet.