Waharoa (gateway)

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Title

Waharoa (gateway)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a magnificent carved waharoa (entranceway) to a Māori pā (fortified village). DetailsThe central archway of the gate is ornately decorated with the beaked manaia (carved beaked figures) form. An ancestral figure sits astride the upper arch of the gate itself, upon which other ancestral figures are represented in high relief. Two pillars carved with four vertically aligned figures flank the main gateway. Two manaia form the base with two more ancestral figures at the top. The upper-mo...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1906

Creator

Neke Kapua / Tene Neke / Eramiha Kapua

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1366793

Related subjects

tōtara (wood) / shell (plant material) / gateways / woodcarving / Te Huringa II: 1900 - 1950 / Ngāti Tara a Whai / Te Arawa / Rotorua / Wellington

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