Description (CMS Description)
Card (1) for E 1905.187 [Z6339] notes in black ink 'Central portion of a door-post. [added later in black ink], 'boldly carved in Kauri pine, showing human figures above & below.'
A note added later by H.D. Skinner in black ink notes: 'Carved slab for decoration of interior of house. Partly sawn partly adzed. A good piece. But treatment of hands & genitals indicates modern influence. [signed] H.D.S.'
Card (2) for Z 6339 notes in typeface 'Door post of house carved from Kauri pine.'. The term 'door post' has been crossed out and replaced with 'Interior ancestor panel'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
'Exhibited: on display in the New Zealand Maori case (28), Maudslay Hall, from 1990- 22 November 2017
Event Date 1990
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Collected by: (bio) Sir Julius Wernher.

Note on the rear of card 2 from D.R. Simmons (Auckland Museum), 29-31.6.1978: 'House carving (poupou). Tools - steel. Provenance. Gisborne c.1840-50. Rongowhakaata tribe.'
Amiria Salmond, 23.05.01: David Simmons' views on the provenance and dating of Maori artefacts are no longer considered reliable in New Zealand.
Record checked and revised by Amiria Salmond, (2001.11.07)
Event Date 13/9/2012
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (CMS Context)
The pou has a rectangular waha paepae slot for a rafter at the top so it seems probable that it was once part of a whare and probably earlier than the 1870s. The bottom of the pou has rotted so may have been in the ground at this level or…..it may have been much taller with another complete figure. Notes by Jeremy Treadwell, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, via email 4 August 2016

Previously noted on the database as purchased at the 1905 Webster's Sale with money provided to the Acquisitions Fund by Julius Werner, which matches the Z register fro Z 6339. However, the 1905 Accessions Register notes it was 'Bought 1886 at G. Gardener's, Furniture Dealer, 219 Brompton Road, London. (As part of the List of possible dealers who Pitt-Rivers dealt with over collecting career, the Pitt Rivers Museum lists a pottery dealer, G Gardner's of 209 Brompton Road which may be the same person.)
Event Date 9/8/2016
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Auction / Sale)
Register notes 'Bought 1886 at G. Gardener's, Furniture Dealer, 26 Brompton Road, London' and adds an asterisk linking Sir Julus Werner as a monetary donor to the acquisitions fund.
Event Date 29/11/2017
Author: rachel hand