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Te Kooti's sacred house at Te Whaiti

Te Kooti's sacred house at Te Whaiti

Eripitana, Te Kooti’s house at Te Whāiti, was intended to be one of the most ‘sacred worshipping whares in the Urewera country’ but was abandoned because of an ill omen in the carving.

Thomas Ryan’s drawing shows the front of the whare, with elaborately carved amo, pare and tekoteko. ‘Ko Whakaari Eripi’ is incised on the sloping maihi.

Credit:

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: B-159-007
Artist: Thomas Aldworth Ryan (1864-1927).
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

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