rubbing
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Drg.435
- Title
- Series: Mauru, te Toa o Tinomana (Mauru, Tinomana's Warrior)
- Description
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Rubbing; five scenes in two rows, with dividing patterns at the top and the bottom of the rubbing; first scene depicts a man seated in a chair, holding a spear, with a man kneeling down towards him; second scene depicts a man holding a spear, facing a woman, both standing outdoors, with a thatched roof building in the background; third scene depicts a man killing another man with a spear; fourth scene depicts a man kneeling down in front of a stone figurative sculpture, with two thatched roof shelters in the background; fifth scene depicts a ceremonial dance. 20thC(early).
Rubbing.
- Production date
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20thC(early)
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April 1968
- Dimensions
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Height: 28.80 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 27.20 centimetres (rubbing)
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Width: 45.90 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 43.60 centimetres (rubbing)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Related images: Oc2006-Drg-423 through to Oc2006-Drg-73 are all from an unbound folio collection of rubbings depicting imagery legends in the Cook Islands. The cardboard painted front cover of the folio is painted with Polynesian designs and gives the title: "A COLLECTION OF HAND PRINTS OF LEGENDS OF THE COOK ISLANDS", April 1968. The date is handwritten in ink, in the corner of the front cover, which suggests that this is the date at which each rubbing was covered with overlaying paper and given a series number.
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Notes from Curator Jean Tekura Mason at the Cook Islands Library & Museum Society Inc: They have copies of 52 rubbings which appear to be the same as those in the BM collection. Photos and an inscription suggests that the prints in their collection were done in 1965 under the tutelage of Sami & Fred Stubner of Hawaii, utilising 10th grade/4th form pupils of Tereora College, the main state school.
A wall mural (on the discovery of Rarotonga, Cook Islands) made during this period (1960's) also survives today on an exterior wall of one of the classrooms at Tereora College at Nikao, Cook Islands, Polynesia.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Acidity and yellowing of overlay paper.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2006,Drg.435
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 17 (series number)
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Miscellaneous number: OCEANIA 278 (British Museum reference number)