“When you enter a wharenui, you enter through the embrace of the founding ancestor, the tupuna, the carvedkoruru figure at the apex of the roof is the face and the large bargeboards on each side are the outstretchedarms. The interior walls are often adorned with ancestral figures that are carved, woven or painted. Theseconnect to the main wharenui ancestors through the heke (rafters) and tahuhu (ridge beam) The tahuhu is themost sacred part of the wharenui and represents the backbone of the ancestor. Residing within it is the mauri,or the life spirit that binds the people and the building together”7
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