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Story: Kurī – Polynesian dogs

Tānenuiarangi meeting house

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Tānenuiarangi meeting house

This lifelike carving shows a man with Pōtaka Tawhiti reaching up to him. It is at Tānenuiarangi meeting house, at Waipapa marae at the University of Auckland .

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Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland

Reference: Tane-nui-a-Rangi. Auckland: University of Auckland, 1988

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Basil Keane, Kurī – Polynesian dogs – Traditional accounts of kurī, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16227/tanenuiarangi-meeting-house (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 1 March 2009.