Traditional carving rarely depicted animals realistically. This more recent carving of Pōtaka Tawhiti’s head, painted white, is in the Tamatekapua meeting house at Ōhinemutu.
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Private collection, Paul Tapsell
Photograph by Krzysztof Pfeiffer
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