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Figure 22: Maxwell H. (2011). Three effigies using mixed media.
Left to right [1] korowai made with green and yellow feathers [2] Stripped red dyed stripped flax, three blue feathers in hair [3] plain
kahu paake with human hair. Displayed and photographed in small bush on property of Murray Gibb on Te Maruata land block.
Robley (1896) has a photograph in his book depicting a group of three effigies made up of
mokomokai, hair, feathers, korowai, kokowai, and kahu paake (plain cloaks) held together by
individual wooden poles. Maning (1912) also gives description to coming upon a group of effigies
and mistaking them for a group of seated Maori deep in conversation. Those images evoked the
making of effigies to explore and progress this study. Each individual mokomokai-inspired artefact
was decorated and tied to a red wooden stake for display with varying success.
NAMED MEMORIAL TILES
Small clay name tags of Ngati Hau tupuna were made up as a record of loss. I explored the placement
of named tiles on a faded red blanket, saw dust, wire netting and wood, affixed to memorial stone off-
cuts, on a taniko mat, on a faded red blanket on top of a paraikete whero (red blanket) and placed
randomly on whenua at Te Maruata. The notion of naming whanau and maintaining a visual and
accessible record of names to prompt and recall memory of loss is at the core of this work. In my
opinion, keeping name tags of tupuna is tantamount to viewing personal names on gravestones. The
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