Ngā Orokohanga: Te Tikanga Kaihanga Metara (1500–1700)
Ko te hītori o te hākari puruhi i tīmata ehara hei whakangahau, engari hei whakaaturanga o te matatau whakamīharo. I ngā rautau 16 me 17, ko ngā kaihanga uara, kaihanga koura me ngā kaihanga rino i hanga i ngā mahi metara iti rawa, ā, i whakamahi i ngā puruhi ora hei whakaatu i te māmā me te āta o ā rātou mahi.
I te 1578, ko te kaihanga rino o Rānana, a Mark Scaliot, i hanga i "he raka e tekau mā tahi ngā wāhanga rino, tīwhara me parāhi, ko ēnei katoa, me te kī, he wāhanga koura kotahi anake te taumaha." I hangaia anō hoki e ia he mekameka koura e whā tekau mā toru ngā hononga, ā, i muri i te here o tēnei mekameka ki te raka me te kī, ka whakanohoia ki te kakī o te puruhi, nāna i tō katoa me te ngāwari. Ko te taumaha katoa — raka, kī, mekameka, me te puruhi — he wāhanga koura kotahi me te haurua anake.
I te 1743, ko te kaihanga uara ko Sobieski Boverick i whakaatu ki te Royal Society he kaletiā ivory mē te ono hōiho, me te kaihautū, ngā pāhihi, ngā kaiāwhina me te kaipohi — katoa i tōia e te puruhi kotahi. Ko te kaimātai mirohanga a Henry Baker nāna ia i whakauru ki te hui i te 9 o Hune 1743.



