Lintel Fragment
P3222
From: New Zealand | Poverty Bay
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P3222 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Maori |
| Provenience | New Zealand | Poverty Bay |
| Date Made | 19th century |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Technique | Carved |
| 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. |
| Height | 42 cm |
| Width | 40 cm |
| Depth | 10 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
| Other Number | 24345 - Dealer's Number | 44 - Dealer's Number |
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