<em>Lark singing was almost a daily ritual</em>, 1969
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Lark singing was almost a daily ritual, 1969

Record number
cm000077
Title

Lark singing was almost a daily ritual

Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1551 x 555 mm
Inscriptions

Matira Kereama (conté crayon, b.l.); McCahon Sept 6 69 (conté crayon, b.r.); abandoned beginnings of a text (on reverse)

Credit line
on loan from a private collection
Accession number
L1998/28/24
Extended inscriptions

"Lark Singing" was almost / a daily ritual: Parents today can / scarcely believe how the / Maori children of long / ago survived without / cupboards full of ready-to-eat food.
THE LARK'S SONG
Ka 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 - e / - e - e

Exhibition history

1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969

2017 Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide
City Gallery Wellington
Wellington
8/4/2017 - 30/7/2017

Notes

The text, with some modifications, is from chapter 21 of Matire Kereama's The Tail of the Fish: Maori Memories of the Far North (Oswald-Sealy, Auckland, 1968).