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Waka Tūpāpaku

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Tristan Marler Kai Whakairo (Graduate Carver)
Te Rarawa
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$3,500 NZD

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A waka tūpāpaku is a box used for containing the bones of a person of high rank after they had been exposed on the atamira platform, the flesh removed and the bones anointed with oil and red ochre, placed in a waka tūpāpaku and taken to a tribal buriel cave.

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