Atamira (seat)

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Atamira (seat)

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This no'oanga (seat) has four legs and is carved from a single piece of wood. The broad seat is flat from front to back, convex from side to side, and slightly wider at the sides than the centre. The two pairs of legs curve slightly outwards towards the sides and terminate in wider feet, which are rounded on the outside and pointed on the inside. Two of the legs have been repaired with nails. Cook Islands' craftAccording to research by Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck) in the 1940s, no'oanga were m...

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URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/84266

Related subjects

wood / seats / seating furniture / woodcarving / Cook Islands / Polynesian / Oceanic / Cook Islands Māori / Captain John Bollons / Mrs Lilian Bollons

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