canoes and canoe part - Maori artefacts
24 item(s) found:
Old Maori canoe prow carved and pierced with blood red ochre decoration, 50 cm high
Tata - large Sea-Going Waka Bailer, a volumous hollowed bailer. Mid-brown patina. Height 53 cm. Width 31.5 cm. Depth 18 cm.
A Maori canoe Bailer, of wood, New Zealand, 39 x 15 cm
A Maori canoe ancestor mask, of wood in classic robust form, weathered, New Zealand, 38 x 17 cm
A contact period stone carved wooden canoe prow. Spiral carvings all over, with a manaia bird figure at top of stem one paua shell eye on one side. Maori face at base. Height 43.5, width 7.5 cm
20th century Maori canoe Bailer from Rotorua, (Maori arts & Crafts Institute). Length 36 cm
20th century stone Maori canoe anchor. Large and heavy, with groove around the centre for rope. D. 26 cm
Superb 18th-century Maori canoe bailer, Tiheru.…
Tata (Waka Bailer), extremely well balanced example in the minimalistic early form, the base extends and terminates with minimalist mania or tiki figure, emphasized with fully incised almond-shaped eyes, perforated nostrils and relief mouth,…
Tauihu - Waka (canoe) prow, tall angular brow with low relief carving. Top of tiki offering unique highly carved rim and deep receding vee pattern. Temples also offer manaia all seeing looking backwards. Remnants of Pitau (spirals) apparent.…
Rare 18th century Captain Cook period Maori small wooden war canoe prow (Tauihu). Stone carved from one piece of wood, head raised, arms back and two spirals (Pitau) between figure and splash board mounted with figure.…
An impressive late 18th century large Maori stone adze. Used in the process of war canoe making or tree felling, has a good cutting edge. Length 29.5 cm
An old contact period Beautifully carved wooden canoe prow. On a base with a tiki figure at base and a tiki face near the top. Spiral carvings all over. Some spirals damaged. Height 39 cm. Width 110 cm
Dark stained wood wahaika decorated all over with an amalgam of surface carving including kowhaiwhai and rauponga, the forward projecting figure to the blade edge based on a tau-ihu (canoe prow),…
Toki, Museum registered. Quadrangulated tapering to fine blade in good order. body offers significant curvature suggesting adze was applied to canoe production. Classic period. Length 23.6 cm. Width 5.6 cm.
A Maori carved tourist Art Waka-Taua, the miniature war canoe model supported on an integral carved stand. 'R' cypher to waka underside. Y registration not required. Length 60 cm
A contact period Hoe, canoe paddle age related dull wood, undecorated, a 10 cm. Split from the bottom edge has been reinforced with wire, with another split through the middle. Provenance; in one family since the 1880s.…
modern Maori war canoe with stern post, prow and paddles and some paua shell decoration, signed underneath by T and H Te Whata 7/97. Length 156 cm
Canoe Bailer Taranaki Region of dark brown wood, with deep scoop bowl and steep sides. Raised flared handle with rounded knob end, back section with carved face and inset paua shell eyes.…
Early 20th century (half) of a Maori canoe again found drifting near mere mere after a huge flood (1950s). Length 296 cm.
A Maori Hoe (canoe paddle) Y Registration pending, the blade ornately carved with tiki figures with inset paua eyes on a rauponga ground, the shaft carved with a wheku head, terminating in a closed hand form, the reverse carved with rauponga.…
Fragment of Maori Canoe sternpost, Taurapa, circa early 19th century
A Maori ceremonial hoe canoe paddle, attributed to Jacob William Heberley [Hakopa Heperi] 1849 -1906, of dark stained wood, the blade ornately carved with tiki figures with inset Paua eyes on a Rauponga ground, the shaft carved with a weku head,…
A fine Maori canoe bailer, revival sculpture, of wood in classic ovoid form with projecting grip, decorated with ancestor motifs and shell inlay, smooth glossy patina, New Zealand, 47 x 25 cm