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Show - 217 - the head, which is the sacred portion of a Chief and in order to show the importance of rank of the ancestor, the head is large in nronortion to the body. The flashing eyes, the out-thrust tongue accentuate the defiance and arrogance of the fearless ancestor. The nrominent figure on the front of the house is the great tekoteko standing at the aoex of thr roof. The figure holding a paddle symbolizes the bold navigator who left Hawaiki to come to Aotearoa over six hundred years ago. Two other relief figures of the finest .^carvings represent Rangi, the Sky Father, and Papa, the Earth Mother, who were separated by their son Tane, the Forest god. One of the designed paintings in the Carved House signifies the secret hone of the narent to give to his child, at each sten the fullness of knowledge. Between the Treaty House and the Whare-Punanga stand two century-old trees: the totara and the oak, symbolic of the uniting of the Maori and the Pakeha, who still dwell together in neace in the Land of the Long White Cloud. |