The Resting Place

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- Regular museum archival paper print - 550 x 365mm

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Original painting SOLD, oil on canvas, 920 x 610mm, 2010

The story of

The intricately carved taurapa (stern post) of Māui's mythical waka Nukutaimemeha rests at the bottom of the deep ocean, dwelling in the mystery, in the underworld, in the realms of the undiscovered.

Māui was a Polynesian demi-god who lived in Hawaiiki, the mythical ancestral homeland of Māori. One day Māui and his brothers went fishing far out into the ocean and he dropped his magic fishhook over the side of his waka. He felt a strong tug on the line and after much straining and chanting of karakia (incanta...