Te Waka

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Print sizes and editions

- Regular museum archival paper print - 660 x 613mm
(limited to 275)
- Large museum archival paper print - 940 x 873mm
(limited to 195)
- Extra Large museum canvas print - 1142 x 1060mm
(limited to 175)

Your unique limited edition fine art print
- Sofia Minson creates your exclusive signed print
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Original painting SOLD, oil on canvas, 1400 x 1300mm, 2007

The story of

'' was inspired by the legend of Kupe, the great Polynesian navigator. Kupe is said to have journeyed from Hawaiiki, the mythical ancestral homeland of the Maori, to become the first person to discover Aotearoa. Matahorua (also known as Matawhaorua) was the name of his great ocean going vessel and it is pictured in this painting with an intricately carved ...