Grand Vestibule: The British Monarchy and the World
The Grand Vestibule at Windsor Castle reflects interaction between the monarchy and the wider world
TE KANAWA, DIGGRESS RANGITAUIRA
Wall hanging
1990RCIN 74071
A rectangular woven flax wall hanging, the top braids looped onto a wooden pole. Woven with four horizontal bands of weka and kereru (pigeon) feathers between bands of brown flax-fibre cords, on a cream flax background with a fringe at the lower end.
A presentation letter states that 'the wall hanging is symbolic of Aotearoa, with muka flax fibre a motive of growth, interweaving of peoples, the pattern of cream a myriad of stars, Nga Purapura Whetu the sky itself, brown feathers of the weka denote Papatuanuku mother earth, white - green of the kereru (pigeon) of the Moana Nuiakiwa the ocean caressing our islands and those of the Polynesian peoples'.
A presentation letter states that 'the wall hanging is symbolic of Aotearoa, with muka flax fibre a motive of growth, interweaving of peoples, the pattern of cream a myriad of stars, Nga Purapura Whetu the sky itself, brown feathers of the weka denote Papatuanuku mother earth, white - green of the kereru (pigeon) of the Moana Nuiakiwa the ocean caressing our islands and those of the Polynesian peoples'.
Bibliographic reference(s)
No. 589, p. 73 (The Maori Collections at the British Museum / by Dorota C. Starzecka, Roger Neich & Mick Pendergrast (2010))
