TOITŪ TE KUPU, TOITŪ TE MANA, TOITŪ TE WHENUA - SET OF 3 RAU

Mixed media on Pōhutukawa Rau

225 x 275 mm Frame

TOITŪ TE KUPU, TOITŪ TE MANA, TOITŪ TE WHENUA

Hold fast to your culture, Te Reo, spirit and culture, 

This proverb was spoken by Tinirau of Wanganui. It is a plead to hold fast to our culture, for without language, without mana (spirit), and without land, the essence of being a Maori would no longer exist, but be a skeleton which would not give justice to the full body of Maoritanga