Ko wai te waka e kau mai nei (What is this canoe that swims my way)

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Ko wai te waka e kau mai nei (What is this canoe that swims my way)

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Te Papa Collections Online

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Land, and Maori ancestral and spiritual connections to it, is the central concern of Buck Nin’s paintings. Of Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Toa descent, Nin expressed these connections in symbolic landscape paintings in which a horizontal band of motifs abstracted from the carved tauihu (prow), taurapa (sternpost) and side strake of the waka taua or war canoe serves as a protective screen through which Nin invites the viewer to gaze ‘into the soul of the land’.(1) He painted increasingly elaborate ...

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Date created

1976

Creator

Buck Nin

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37340

Related subjects

acrylic paint / hardboard / paintings / New Zealand

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