ARTICLE
A RARE SCULPTURE - (Te Ao Hou - No. 30 March 1960)
- Date
- March 1960
- By
- Maori Affairs DepartmentMaori Affairs Department
- Publisher
- Te Ao Hou
- Description
This lively sculpture of a Maori dog is one of the few wood carvings to come from the South Island. We have paintings of dogs on the walls of caves, but as far as I know this is the only representation of a dog from ancient Maori culture. Possibly this interesting little animal hunted with his master for the moa on Canterbury's wide plain, to end h...
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- Crown copyright
- Source
- Te Ao Hou - No. 30 (March 1960)
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