Cook Islands: Jean Mason

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NOT THAT KIND OF MAORI By JEAN MASON At the Auckland Museum An old Pakeha woman asks me what the meaning of those patterns are in the tukutuku panels on the walls of the whare I'm sorry but I don't know I'm not that kind of Maori What kind of Maori are you, she asks Cook Islands Maori Never heard of them, she says. Today, I have learned that there's a story in the red, black and white patterns This one is the southern night sky: that's the Southern Cross These are Takurua and Puanga.