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Carving: Iwirākau style

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Carving: Iwirākau style

This carving on a poutokomanawa, the central upright of a house, from Tīkapa on the East Coast, is carved in the Iwirākau style. It represents the ancestor Iwirākau.

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Monty Soutar, East Coast region – Arts, culture and heritage, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33435/carving-iwirakau-style (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Monty Soutar, published 23 August 2011, updated 1 March 2015.