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Story: Tuatara

Door handle

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Door handle

Tuatara often appear in carvings and sculpture. These handles on sliding doors are practical as well as a design feature. To make the handles, a photograph of a tuatara was digitised into a three-dimensional image. This was then used to create a mould, into which molten aluminium was poured.

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Charles Daugherty and Susan Keall, Tuatara – Life history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14984/door-handle (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Charles Daugherty and Susan Keall, published 1 March 2009.

Comments

gloria
11 August 2011
I would luv to purchase something like this as a door pull. Where may I?