figure;
door-jamb
- Museum number
- Oc1894,0716.4
- Description
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Door jamb (whakawae) with three carved figures, made of wood, with inlaid haliotis shell eyes.
- Dimensions
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Height: 101 centimetres
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Width: 10.90 centimetres
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Depth: 5.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Starzecka, Neich and Pendergrast 2010
143 Plate 38
Door jamb, whakawae
1894.7-16.4. Height 99 cm.
Three solid wooden figures, arranged vertically, stripped of paint/varnish. Two upper figures are wheku-faced, lower is ruru with ear plugs; whakarare, rauponga and spirals on faces with haliotis-shell eyes; pungawerewere spirals on shoulders and hips; hands on trunk.
Provenance: Lady Sudeley Collection.
Comments: Poverty Bay/ Rongowhakaata, 1820s–40s (RN); East Coast, nineteenth century (DRS). Pair with figure 144 (1894.7-16.5); close but not exact match, probably by different carvers (RN).
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One of a pair with Oc1894,0716.5.
- Location
- On display (G24/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
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
- Oc1894,0716.4
