Maori, Oceanic & African Arts Thursday, 22 April 2021 - 6:00 PM start

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Ngati Tarawhai Carved Mirror Frame

Realised: $26,000 plus premium

Lot Details

Ngati Tarawhai Carved Mirror Frame Modelled in the form of a pare and whakawae, the lintels and supports which frame the windows of wharenui (meeting houses) The pare centered by a figure with hands placed to his abdomen flanked by outward facing manaia figures with three fingered hands above a frieze decorated with pikorauru (spirals) and rauponga. The whakawae with two ancestral figures each surmounting the other with their hands placed on their abdomens and with inset paua disc eyes. The lower section shelf decorated with a tauira (scrolling spiral) design and with further rauponga decoration. The original recessed mirror with a beveled edge. This carved mirror frame is similar to another example carved by Tene Waitere that was exhibited alongside other Ngati Tarawhai carvings in the 1906 International Exhibition in Christchurch. That mirror is now held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and is currently on display in the exhibition Turangawaewae: Art and New Zealand 73 x 53cm Y 10884