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These Maori artifacts include:
Hei Tiki - Hei meaning to suspend and tiki human form, often made from old adze heads to tended to be tomahawk shaped. Pounamu (green stone) was prized as it was traded up from the West Coast of the South Island.
Wahaika Patu: a hand to hand fighting weapon - using stabbing motions especially up under the jaw. If you look carefully the little inscribed figure is holding his own patu. (I wonder if on that patu, there is a little inscribed figure holding his own patu.....)
Putorino: flute made from two pieces of carved matai (black pine) and lashed together
Short gun: of 1880s vintage.
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Paepae - thought to have come from the front bench of a meeting house - of our local Maori carving style, the pointy heads and pungawerewere (spider web) decoration.
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Carved Maori canoe prowheads
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