Evidence of Similarities in Asian and New Zealand Art Work – Global totems
New Zealand’s Maori people construct a form of totem to commemorate their ancestors. The Ainu people from Hokkaido in northern Japan build totem-like clusters of tree trunks. Zhou Man’s Fleet also had Japanese ships. This is known by the DNA evidence by Torroni and colleagues to be found on pg 153 of the DNA Pack.
There is an undeniable artistic similarity between Japanese Ainu totem poles and Maori totem poles, their carvings made oceans apart. The enlarged heads, with slanted eyes, sit proud upon their bodies, which seem more in proportion when viewed from below.
The protruding tongue seen clearly in Maori carvings is a motif found repeatedly in the art styles of the American Northwest Coast, New Zealand and China. (See Two studies of art in the Pacific Area: The protruding tongue and related motifs in the art styles of the American Northwest Coast, New Zealand and China (by Mino Badner)…A note on the relationship between art styles of Maori and of Ancient China. 1966)
Other Carvings:
· In 1997 an ancient carving now being held at the Dargaville Maritime Museum, in Northland, was announced to the public. The carving – kept secret since its discovery six years ago – was restored at Auckland University.
· Museum curator and renowned historian Noel Hilliam says the rare 2.7m female carving is Waitaha and was found in sand dunes at North Head on Kaipara Harbour by a local woman. Patrick Ruka, Waitaha kaumatua, named it Pouto Ki Rongo Maraeroa.
· The 10ft statue of a woman carved in native Kauri timber was found in 1991 just a few hundred yards from the site of an ancient earthwork (see excerpts from Daily Telegraph article dated June 11 1998). This statue bears no signs of the distinctive Maori artwork and now stands in the Dargaville Maritime Museum, North Island.
· Carved and painted pictures of canoes far removed from the traditional Maori design (pre-Maori) can also be found at the Dargaville Museum.
