The Lark's Song , 1969
Record number
cm000068
Title
The Lark's Song
Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1493 x 553 mm
Inscriptions
Matire Kereama The Lark's Song (pencil, b.l.); Colin McCahon. Aug 20 '69 (pencil, b.r.)
Collection
Credit line
on loan from a private collection
Accession number
L1998/28/36
Extended inscriptions
K [sic] tahi tii, Ka / rua tii. Ka noho / mai te patii te / patoo re. / Ka rau na. Ka noho / te Kiwi. Ka poo he / wai. / Tai tai to pi to paa. / Ka hui a mai
Ka toko te rangi. / Kai ana te whetu. Te / marama i te rangi. / I te papa takina. E hui / tarere. / Ko te tio e rere. Ra / runga ra tope kapeka. / E hue kaurere turakina / te arero o te rangi / Kotare wiwi wawa keke.
Te manu i tau noo / tuu-e
Exhibition history
1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969
Notes
The text is from chapter 21 of Matire Kereama's The Tail of the Fish: Maori Memories of the Far North (Oswald-Sealy, Auckland, 1968).