A carved mask fitted as a decoration on the gable peak of a Maori meeting house.
a canopy was erected with four sets of koruru
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- Two photographs show the koruru decorated with what are believed to be hawk feathers.
- The koruru crowning the apex of the house is his head.
- The front of the house has at the apex of the gable a large carved head which we call the koruru.
- There was meant to be an ancestral figure up there, a proper koruru.
- The founding ancestor after whom this meeting house is usually named is depicted by the koruru.
- At the apex of the maibi, above the doorway, is the koruru or central carving.
- The koruru is the head of the ancestor.
- The koruru is curiously wrought with detail manaia carving on the forehead.
- His arms are the maihi, the boards sloping down from the koruru to form the roof.
- The name of the carved head (koruru) on the front gable is visible.