Examples of Maori carving at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. The tekoteko at left is in the style of an East Coast carver working around Wanganui about 1850-60, and the tekoteko (right) with diagonal decorative work on the body, was carved with a steel tool, probably by an Arawa carver in the Bay of Plenty about the 1850's.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 15, 1 December 1983, Page 24
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58Examples of Maori carving at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. The tekoteko at left is in the style of an East Coast carver working around Wanganui about 1850-60, and the tekoteko (right) with diagonal decorative work on the body, was carved with a steel tool, probably by an Arawa carver in the Bay of Plenty about the 1850's. Tu Tangata, Issue 15, 1 December 1983, Page 24
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