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Author
Gottfried Lindauer  (1839–1926)  wikidata:Q1539348 q:cs:Bohumír Lindauer
 
Gottfried Lindauer
Alternative names
Gottfried Bohumir Lindaur; Bohumir Lindaur
Description New Zealand painter, gardener and visual artist
Date of birth/death 5 January 1839 Edit this at Wikidata 13 June 1926 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Plzeň Woodville
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creator QS:P170,Q1539348
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: The remains of the sacred dead and all connected therewith were highly tapu and anyone who had been engaged in handling the dead or bones of the dead would be extremely tapu (sacred/forbidden) and would not dare to touch food with the hands. Consequently such persons like the Tohunga shown had to be fed in the manner shown in this picture.
"A little girl, quite naked, so that her garments may not be infected with the dangerous tapu, has brought the old man his food, a plaited flax kono or basket full of potatoes, and is half-fearfully feeding him with the boiled taewa stuck on the end of a long fern-stalk."
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr. H. E. Partridge, 1915.
Date 1901[1]
Source/Photographer Visual Archives

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  1. Tohunga under Tapu. Auckland Art Gallery.

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