This amo (post) from Te Puawai o Te Arawa, a carved storehouse which is now in the Auckland Museum, depicts a couple having sex. It is one of a number of examples of carvings depicting sexual relations that have been identified by academic Ngahuia Te Awekotuku.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, A. E. Birch Collection
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Photograph by Thomas Pringle
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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