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mask

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    pare eva (Cook Islands)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    dancing mask

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    1927.124
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    23 Jun 1927
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    1009 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga

Mātātuhi me ngā tuhinga

Mātātuhi

Taonga

  • Rārangi Mihi
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1927.124, 1009
  • Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana

    'Mangaia is one of the rare places in Polynesia where masks were worn, by both men and women, with tapa costumes in dances at festivals. These Mangaian masks seem to be a late nineteenth-century innovation on Mangaia, perhaps inspired by Cook Islander missionary experience of masked dancers in Melanesia.' Neich and Pendergrast, 'Pacific Tapa', 1997.

  • Takenga ā-Ahurea
  • Kohinga
  • Kaiwaihanga Matua
  • Wāhi
  • Unknown
  • Pāoho
  • Raraunga Ine

    1080 x 250mm

  • Taumata whakarōpū
  • Whakahounga o Mua
    26 Feb 2018
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