Carvings Lent
The Canterbury Museum will lend about £2OOO worth of Maori carvings and other items to a Maori art exhibition which the Department of External Affairs plans to send on a tour of Western Samoa, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, and Japan. The department has described part of the museum’s traditional collection as essential to the display which will show both ancient and modem Maori art. The carved items will include a threshhold board, a lintel, door panel, gable, support posts, and the stem post of a canoe. None is unique and none is On public display at the museum. “This will be the most ambitious display of Maori art ever mounted by the Government,” said the director of the Museum (Dr. R. S. Duff). The request for loans was a tribute to the scope and interest of the Canterbury collection.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31330, 29 March 1967, Page 6
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