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Plafó de casa de reunions, poupou
Meeting house panel
In Polynesia and other parts of Oceania, houses were places for performing rituals and socialising. In Maori villages, food storehouses and marae meeting houses were elaborately decorated and understood as the embodiment of ancestors. The representation of ancestors on the apex and other parts of the building was accompanied by other generic figures of warriors, thus giving a general sense of vigo…
Creator
- maori
Type of item
- doorjambs
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Rights
- Museu de Cultures del Món
Creation date
Places
- New Zealand
Identifier
- MCM 6 03
- http://hdl.handle.net/10970/objects/H622409
Extent
- 118 x 40 x 7 cm
Providing country
- Spain
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-06-15T16:28:45.375Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-04-13T14:59:20.683Z