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Story: Whakairo – Māori carving

Carved ashtray

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Carved ashtray

This carved ashtray is an example of the type of tourist knock-offs that were based on traditional Māori carvings, but were a more simplistic imitative style.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, K. E. Niven and Co Collection

Reference: 1/2-211756-F

by K. E. Niven

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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Brett Graham, Whakairo – Māori carving – The Rotorua school, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/43108/carved-ashtray (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Brett Graham, published 21 October 2013.