lintel
- Museum number
- Oc1904,0716.1
- Description
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Wooden openwork lintel, pare. Three wheku figures with double tongues, raised arms, plain faces and trunks, plain spirals on shoulders and knees, split penes. Takarangi spirals. Solid base with bands of rauponga and rauponga manaia head at each end.
- Production date
- 1870s (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 81 centimetres
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Width: 28 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich and Pendergrast 2010
133 Plate 35
Lintel, pare
1904.7-16.1. Width 81 cm.
Wooden openwork lintel. Three wheku figures with double tongues, raised arms, plain faces and trunks, plain spirals on shoulders and knees, split penes. Takarangi spirals. Solid base with bands of rauponga and rauponga manaia head at each end.
Provenance: Purchased from A.S. Drey.
Comments: Bay of Plenty: (Whakatane?), c.1870s (RN); (Mataatua), 1860 (DRS).
‘Dear Sir, In possession of your most favoured of 15th inst. I take notice of your order for lot 573 at the Leidz sale to be bought for you …’ (BM PE correspondence: A.S. Drey, 16 June 1904).
References: Simmons 2001: 215.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1904,0716.1
