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they themselves are? Works are made available for public and 

 private art appreciation. Official agencies assume the care and 

 maintenance of works. Connoisseurs and critics busy them- 

 selves with them . . . yet in all this busy activity, do we encoun- 

 ter the work itself? 



"However high their quality and power of impression, 

 however good their stage preservation, however certain their 

 interpretation, placing [works] in a collection has withdrawn 

 them from their own world . . . The works are no longer the 

 same as they once were. It is they themselves, to be sure, that 

 we encounter there, but they themselves are gone by." 23 

 Aue, taku kahurangi e . . . Alas, my precious one . . . ! 



(Lament for a lost treasure) 



Notes 



1. Apirana Turupa Ngata and Pei Te Hurinui Jones, Nga Moteatea 

 (The Songs), Polynesian Society Maori Texts (Wellington: Polynesian 

 Society, 1959-1970), p. 92 (author's translation). 



2. Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui, or. New Zealand and Its Inhabi- 

 tants. . . (London: Wertheim and Macintosh, 1855), 98. 



3. Ibid. 



4. Ibid, 17 



5. S. Percy Smith, The Lore of the Whare-Wananga, or. Teachings of the 

 Maori College on Religion, Cosmogeny, and History, Polynesian Society 

 Memoirs, vols. 3-4 (New Plymouth, New Zealand: Avery, 1913- 

 1915), I, 18. 



6. Anne Salmond, "Pathways in the Modern World," in Te Maori: 

 Maori Art from New Zealand Collections, Sidney Moko Mead, ed. (New 

 York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984), 112, 113. 



7. John C. Beaglehole, The Journals of Captain James Cook: Addenda 

 and Corrigenda to Volume I, The Voyage of the "Endeavour, " 1768-1771 

 (Cambridge: University press, 1968), 583-584. 



8. Sydney Parkinson, A Journal of a Voyage Round the World (London: 

 T. Becket and PA. de Hondt, 1771), 97. 



9. Ibid,98. 



10. John C. Beaglehole, The "Endeavour" Journal of Joseph Banks, 

 1768-1771 (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962), I, 425. 



11. John C. Beaglehole, 1968, Ibid, 203. 



12. John C. Beaglehole, 1962, Ibid, I: 438-439. 



13. Ibid, 446-447. 



14. Ibid, 455. 



1 5. S. Percy Smith, Ibid, I-III. 



16. Amiria Manutahi Stirling and Anne Salmond, Amiria: The Life 

 Story of a Maori Woman (Wellington: Reed, 1976), 162. 



17. J. Prytz Johansen, The Maori and His Religion in Its Non-ritualistic 

 Aspects (Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1954), 102. 



18. John White, The Ancient History of the Maori: His Mythology and 

 Traditions (Wellington: Government Printer, 1887-1890), IV, 125- 

 127, author's translation. 



19. Ibid, 161. 



20. Ibid, 183. 



2 1 . Richard Taylor, Ibid, 62 



22. White, Ibid, 17-18. 



23. Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings from "Being and Time" (1927) to 

 "The Task of Thinking" (1964), D.F. Krell, Ed. (London: Routledge and 

 KeganPaul, 1978), 167. 



Stockade post figure fpou whakairoj, made of wood, 175 cm. (68% 

 in.) high, by the Ngati Kahungunu tribe of Ahuriri; Te Huringa 1 

 period (1800 -present). Collection of Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and 

 Museum, Napier. 



