South Australian Museum returns two Māori ancestral carvings
Two carved wooden wall panels from Te Whare o Heretaunga were repatriated to Aotearoa through the Tamatea Pōkai Whenua Trust after a farewell at the South Australian Museum. The two pou had arrived in Adelaide in 1891 and belong to a dispersed group of about 60 carvings commissioned for a Māori meeting house.
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