We are the hull of a great canoe, 1969
Record number
cm000125
Title
We are the hull of a great canoe
Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1495 x 555 mm
Inscriptions
Matire Kereama (conté crayon, b.l.); Colin McCahon / Aug 27 - 69 (conté crayon, b.r.)
Collection
Extended inscriptions
E / KORE / E / NGARO / HE / TAKERE / WAKA / NUI
we will never be lost, / we are the hull of a / great canoe.
Exhibition history
1972 Colin McCahon: A Survey Exhibition
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
7/3/1972 - 23/4/1972
2002 Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
30/8/2002 - 10/11/2002
Notes
The text is from chapter 1 of Matire Kereama's The Tail of the Fish: Maori Memories of the Far North (Oswald-Sealy, Auckland, 1968).