The kōrero
A pūkaea is a voice. This one is carved from rata, a timber so dense and unforgiving that few shape its inner chamber without breaking it. The muka binds the body. The pāua is the eye of sight and direction. Blow through it and the breath that comes out is not only yours. It carries the old tides, the hands that bound it, and the echo of those yet to arrive. When you breathe into it, you breathe with them.
The piece
The record
The piece and its record are one event.
- Form
- Taonga pūoro: a pūkaea, a carved wooden trumpet
- The rākau
- Rata, dense and ancient
- The lashing
- Muka, hand-extracted
- The inlay
- Pāua shell, the eye of sight and direction
- The patterns
- Taratara ā-kae and matakupenga
- Made
- 2025, Hokianga
- Size
- 1500 mm long, 90 mm at the widest
- Care
- Indoors, dry, out of direct sun
- Travel
- Pāua shell: enquiry only outside Aotearoa (CITES / Wildlife Act)
Enquire
Price on enquiry.
Email where the piece would live, and we go from there. Outside Aotearoa the pāua needs permits, so this piece is enquiry only.
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