Description

Title: Carved swordfish tusk - Maori Mangapore

Maker:Unknown

Origin: Indonesia

Date/Period:2025

Materials:Xiphius Gladius, Bone, Steel

Dimensions:Height including stand: 93 cm / 36.4 inches

Description:This swordfish bill has been hand carved with a traditional Maori pattern.The Mangopare design is the traditional maori symbol sign of strength & courage, tenacity of life, unrelenting determination, vigour and wealth. The symbol depicts a hammerhead shark. The symbol is revered to combine the feeling of two devoted lovers; embraced as soul mates returning to the centre of being continuously thus embraced in love and partnership. A symbol of an everlasting bond of friendship that time and space cannot affect. This is true wealth among the natural world of fauna and flora, era, life and universe.

Reserve: $240.00

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Condition

Excellent

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