Wahi Poupou in Blue - M04147 |
original painting, acryl and mixed media on canvas, size: 1220 mm x 300 mm Poupou are the panels in a marae depicting our ancestors and famed tribesmen, but wahi means parts or portions of... representing the fact that many full histories of our elders have been lost or fragmented, and the challenge for the modern Maori is to piece together his own Whakapapa or genealogy from resources that were mainly passed orally. |