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Wooden souvenirr or memento carving. The carving is a reduced-size copy of part of the carved pare above the window of the wharenui Te Hau Ki Turanga.
On the back of the carving is an attached information fold out which includes information about the memento, Māori houses, Te Hau Ki Tauranga, carving, extracts from the writtings of W.J Phillips and quotations from "The Coming of the Māori" by Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck), as well as the designs.
The original totara wharenui was built in 1842 by prominent carver and chief Raharuhi Rukupo as a memorial to his older brother, chief Tamati Waka Mangere, who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The wharenui currently resides at Te Papa, Wellington, but will be returned to Gisborne iwi Rongowhakaata by 2017. The return was negotiatedin as part of their Treaty of Waitangi settlement.
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