box
- Museum number
- Oc1855,1220.63.a
- Description
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Wooden treasure box, wakahuia : brown, elongated-oval shape with slightly raised lid, rabbeted all around edge and fitting into notch at each end. Wheku head on extended neck and raised relief body at each end; bodies with plain spirals on limbs. Surface between divided by whakarare into quarters, each with rauponga spiral. Lid divided longitudinally by line of haehae with large, plain rolling spirals on either side. All carving in low subdued relief. Traces of red ochre inside box.
- Production date
- early 19thC (before 1855)
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Length: 39 centimetres
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Width: 10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Provenance: Haslar Hospital Collection.
Comments: Poverty Bay/East Coast, 1830s (RN); East Coast (DRS).
- Location
- On display (G1/fc22)
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty through Sir John Liddell, C.B (the Museum of Haslar Hospital).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1855,1220.63.a
