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Dim light gives an ominous cast to a poupou (wall post) depicting an ancestor, from Hotunui, a carved meeting house of the Ngati Maru people, Thames, New Zealand. This house was built in 1878 by Ngati Awa carvers from Whakatane, as a wedding present when Mereana Mokomoko, an aristocratic woman of their tribe, married Wirope Hoterene Taipari, a Ngati Maru leader. The house is now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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Dim light gives an ominous cast to a poupou (wall post) depicting an ancestor, from Hotunui, a carved meeting house of the Ngati Maru people, Thames, New Zealand. This house was built in 1878 by Ngati Awa carvers from Whakatane, as a wedding present when