A FINE MAORI MODEL WAR CANOE, the attached prow finely carved as a figure (left arm missing) with pierced apnel above of a further figure flanked by scrolls, the surfaces decorated with scrolls, the eyes of each figure with paua shell inlay, the tall stern similarly decorated with figures and scrolls (damaged), the outer edges of the sides with carved open scrolls, held to the base by two narrow panels lashed with string and with a strip of wood screwed to the inside for strengthening