house-board;
figure
- Museum number
- Oc1894,0716.3
- Description
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Wooden houseboard with two carved figures, one above the other, inlaid eyes of haliotis shell.
- Production date
- 1830-1850 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 153 centimetres
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Width: 39 centimetres
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Depth: 16 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich and Pendergrast 2010
126 Colour plate 6
Pair of front side posts/bargeboard supports, amo
1894.7-16.1 and 1894.7-16.3.
Heights 154 and 153 cm.
Wooden posts, both with two figures above each other, genitalia removed. Upper figures with outer hand passing through mouth and fingers on lips, inner hands on stomach, both lower figures with hands on stomach. All figures wheku-faced, spiral on heads of upper figures. Three bodies plain, one (upper figure of 1894.7-16.3) with rauponga, rauponga spirals on all shoulders and hips. Feet of upper figures as manaia heads with haliotis-shell eyes. Ritorito and rauponga on faces of upper figures, rauponga or whakarare on lower. All figures with haliotis-shell eyes. Deep, bold relief of body sculptural forms.
Provenance: Lady Sudeley Collection.
Comments: Rongowhakaata/Poverty Bay, 1830s–40s (RN); Poverty Bay, 1840–50 (DRS).
References: Neich 1996b: 104.
- Location
- On display (G24/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1981, Middlesborough, Cook Birthplace Museum
1998 27 Jun-1 Nov, London, BM, Maori
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Lady Ada Sudeley. Collected by her uncle, the Hon. Algernon Tollemache in New Zealand, probably between 1850 and 1873. (Dept. of Ethnography correspondence dated 18.4.1996)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1894,0716.3
