Maoris - Carving
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Maori storehouse (Pataka), named 'Te Takinga'. This richly carved storehouse has images (tekoteko) above the door and at the apex representing ancestors of the Ngati Pikiao tribe (Rotorua district). The frontal carvings also feature birdlike "manaia" figures. Storehouses of this type were used to safeguard prized objects, cloaks, weapons, fine baskets and implements. Dried fish, preserved birds and other special foods were stored here to protect them from rats and damp. The free-standing carvings around the sides are ancestral figures from large meeting house or stockade post of fortified villages (pa). May 1969, Wellington
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Maoris - Carving
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Maker
Mr. Neill
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Date made
1969
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Subject
Maoris, Carving
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