Lintel Fragment - P3222 | Collections

Object Number:	P3222
Current Location:	Collections storage
Culture:	Maori
Provenience:	New Zealand Poverty Bay
Date Made:	19th century
Early Date:	1800
Late Date:	1900
Section:	Oceanian
Materials:	Wood
Technique:	Carved
Height:	42cm
Width:	40cm
Depth:	10cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912
Other Number	24345 - Oldman Number 44 - Oldman Number

Description

Pare fragment. Figure from a meeting house lintel (pare). Aitanga a Mahaki, late 18th century. Female, tongue protruding, arms upraised, covered with incised designs, including many spirals. On openwork lattice, broken off on both sides. Another, similar fragment from the same pare is in the National Museum of New Zealand /Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

	Discovering the Past: Highlights from the University Museum (IBM) (20 Jun 1989 - 20 Aug 1989)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

	[Catalogue] Simmons, D. R. 1982. Catalogue of Maori Artefacts in the Museums of Canada and the United States of America. : Page/Fig./Plate: Pl. 216	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Catalogue] Simmons, D. R. 1982. Catalogue of Maori Artefacts in the Museums of Canada and the United States of America. : Page/Fig./Plate: Pl. 215	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Catalogue] Simmons, D. R. 1982. Catalogue of Maori Artefacts in the Museums of Canada and the United States of America. : Page/Fig./Plate: Pl. 214	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Book] Mead, Sidney M. 1984. Te Maori. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 214	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Catalogue] Simmons, D. R. 1982. Catalogue of Maori Artefacts in the Museums of Canada and the United States of America. : Page/Fig./Plate: Pl. 227	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Catalogue] Wardwell, Allen. 1967. The Sculpture of Polynesia. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 75	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference