Glass Etching Depicting Mangatawa Traditional Story

DescriptionThis glass etching on the Tauranga City Libraries Learning Centre wall depicts the Mangatawa traditional story from the Tauranga region. Te WaiūoTeTohorā (the breast milk of the whale) is the name of a spring of white water associated with hills around Welcome Bay and Pāpāmoa in the Tauranga area. The hills represent a family of whales (mother, father and baby) that lost their way. After drinking from a magical spring at Karikari, they were all magically transformed into the ranges in this area.
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Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Tauranga City Libraries History basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Harley Couper), on July 22, 2012.
Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/tauranga_city_libraries_history/images/show/3541 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License.

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City: Tauranga, New Zealand
Year: 2012

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