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Podcast: Paki Kēhua
Episode: Kia ora, is statue? (Part 1)
Description: Episode 28 – Kia ora is Statue? Part One (Based on a True Story)
I went to a marae once that had creepy white marble statues, tonnes of them at the back of the wharenui. I still remember the very first thought that came to my mind, it looked like an urupā. I think they were actually art sculptures, but they looked like they were headstones made by a kaiwhakairo and as such there was an air of unease about them. Tame, a marae kid seems to think that the statues at the back of his marae move when no one...