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This painting was completed by Kāterina Mataira about 1957. At that time she was teaching in Northland as one of the itinerant arts advisers to primary schools in a scheme set up by Gordon Tovey in the Department of Education. Like other Māori artists, she sought to bring together Māori art traditions with modernist work. Later Mataira became a leading advocate for Māori-language education and was made a dame for her work.
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