TURN OF A TIDE
THE ARMYTAGE COLLECTION OF MAORI JADE, by K. Athol Webster; photography by John Queenborough, A.R.P.S. The Cable Press, London. gk eee, price 10/6, post free. NEW ZEALAND has been so hes at the handing out rather than the receiving end of almost two centuries’ trafficking in the treasures of her one unchalienged native art, that we should
be grateful to Mr. Webster (a New Zealander resident in London) for contriving and conspiring the return of a remarkable collection of Maori worked greenstone. The story behind Mr. Webster’s booklet starts with a famous collection of greenstone formed by John White, of Dunedin, in the ‘eighties, and its almost axiomatic movement to Britain. Here it was purchased by T. E. Donne, whose resolve to sell it by auction was met by the author’s dexterous interposition of Edward Armytage as & cash buyer. The sudden death of Armytage in 1946 again threatened the dispersal of the greenstone, and it was only through Mr. Webster’s efforts that the collection reached the Auckland and Dominion Museums. The eighty-five.tikis which form the core of the collection are admirably illustrated by Mr. Queenborough’s photographs, with descriptive notes by
Mr. Webster.
Roger
Duff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 18
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198TURN OF A TIDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 18
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