Well, here she is at last! I did a matau (fish hook) which I posted on October 28th. In it's raw state, I'd sawn it down the centre. I was going to do two the same - mirror images of each other, but this one then morphed into - this!
So she's a fish hook - beautiful, hooks men in. She's Pania of the Reef. We look out on this reef, and there's a local legend that goes wth it. Pania lived out there - in the ocean, then met a man and they fell in love. She came to live on shore, and they had a son. But Pania couldn't bear to be away from the ocean, so she moved back there. Apparently if you go out to the reef, you can see her on the ocean floor.
So I've done her as a mermaid. I think she must have been one, if she lived in the ocean and on land, and local Maori who I have shown this to (and I have another Pania who I've done as a mermaid) have told me - "Well, yes, she was!"
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