Research Catalog

Title

Carved Maori burial chests : a commentary and a catalogue / by Aileen Fox.

Author

Fox, Aileen Mary Henderson, Lady, 1907-

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland Institute and Museum, 1983.

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Additional Authors

Auckland Institute and Museum

Description

iv, 52 p., [41] p. of plates : ill.; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 0067-0456 ; no. 13

Uniform Title

Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum no. 13.

Subject

• Māori (New Zealand people) > Antiquities
• Wood-carving, Māori
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Funeral customs and rites
• New Zealand > Antiquities

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 50-52.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Location & distribution -- Function of chests & burial rites -- Burial caves -- Appearance of the chests in the caves (Colour ; Head-dresses ; Ear ornaments ; Necklaces ; Facial ornament & tatoo) -- Classification of chests -- Incised & relief carving styles (Symmetry & asymmetry ; Stylistic relationship to northern carvings) -- Chronology -- Interpretation -- Catalogue (New Zealand ; Australia ; Austria ; England) -- Evidence of Heremiai kauere -- Wood used in manufacture of Maori bone chests / R. Wallace.

LCCN

^^^84197056^

OCLC

• 11561651
• SCSB-10226040

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library