Bone Carving #20 Pare Chest Plate Manaia When creating this piece

When creating this piece

black waxed cord

Bone Carving #29 Hei Upoko

41 the Celtic Breast Place with a inlay paua heart found here: https://taongaariki

you will adore this beautiful intricate taonga

Bone Carving #20 Pare Chest Plate Manaia When creating this pieceBone Carving #20 Pare Whare Tupuna (Chest Plate) This taonga represents the Pare or the carved image, often seen over the top of some doorways or windows in wharenui. The tupuna (ancestor) is represented in the centre, and the sides are the carved kaitiaki (guardians). The Pare also represents the traditional space from the marae atea to the wharenui. If you have a tupuna you want to remember or hold close, this taonga could be a representation of