Te tangi o te pipiwhararua. (The song of the shining cuckoo) from a poem by Tangirau Hotere.

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Te tangi o te pipiwhararua. (The song of the shining cuckoo) from a poem by Tangirau Hotere.

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This is one of McCahon's major works of the mid-1970s, along with the Urewera Mural, the Blind series, and the Parihaka Triptych. It has several motivations and triggers. The primary one is the shining cuckoo's song, spoken of in a Maori poem passed on to McCahon by Ralph Hotere who got it from his father. Such gifts often produced an 'answering hark' from McCahon. In this instance he combined the words of the song with several other strands of sign and image - Roman numerals, window frames, ...

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McCahon, Colin

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https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5644

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Beaches / Christian art and symbolism / Death in art / Folklore / Legends / Maori language / Maori (New Zealand people) / Mythology, Maori / Numbers in art / Pictorial works / Pūrākau / Spirits / Stations of the Cross in art / Symbolism in art / Wairua

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