Context (Acquisition Details)
Gifted to MAA by Tahe Drollet, a member of the SaVĀge K’lub, who collaborated with the.MAA and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Tau O Mai: Journeys with Mai.
Event Date 20/10/2025
Author: Rachel Hand

Description (Physical description)
Engravings in resin on plywood boards
The twins (2025) Based on a petroglyph now in the Te Fare Iamanaha, Tahiti. The twins from Tipaerui
Patu Toki (2025) Marquesan tattoo design also engraved on an umete (ceremonial bowl), which was used simply as a container/bowl in Tahe’s adopted grandmother’s house (Matira Aginieray). He says of the trial techniques used to create these boards that ‘it looks like bone on a flat surface.’
Stickers
Ō’mai was here
Head of a tahiri (flywhisk) similar/Same as the one exhibited in the Fitzwilliam (Z 5026 A )and used on the wallpaper

Event Date 2/3/2026
Author: Rachel Hand