THE ROCK DRAWINGS
Theo Schoon’s contribution to | the 3YC discussion on Maori rock drawings was his sensitive handling of our language. Indeed, although one must concede that Dr. Duff’s treatment was far more circumstantial, Mr. Schoon’s remarks, bearing the whole weight of a passionate conviction concerning not only the cave drawings but also a complete attitude towards life, was profoundly convincing. I found myself saying "no" to Mr. Schoon’s actual deductions, but "yes" to things not very far beneath the surface of his talk. This splendidly conceived programme with recordings. of Maori singing in between each speaker, was unevenly executed. When the radio reporter felt it. necessary to recapitulate the words of the field officer describing the changes and chances of the cave drawings, I could not help smiling at the "neat" way he imagined he had summed the matter up. I was doubtful, too, of the value of trying to describe the drawings as they would be seen by "the man in the street," a proceeding which coula summarily reduce a great deal of European art to strange but comparatively uninteresting phenomena not really worth trying to understand. I found my own interest in the drawings renewed by. the discussion. HE astonishing thing about
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 10
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205THE ROCK DRAWINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 10
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