Te Oha, a storehouse, pataka, carved by Manawa, chief of the Ngati Pikiao at Waeranga beside Lake Rotorua
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Te Oha, a storehouse, pataka, carved by Manawa, chief of the Ngati Pikiao at Waeranga beside Lake Rotorua

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Te Oha, a storehouse, pataka, carved by Manawa, chief of the Ngati Pikiao at Waeranga beside Lake Rotorua, The alternation of humans and bird like manaia on the sideboards are said to represent humanity in the present between the future and the past. Mans struggle with life and death is recalled. New Zealand. Maori. c 1820. Waeranga.

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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman

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