Title >> Sundial Location >> Cafler Park Art Form >> sculpture Media >> brass Artist >> Christopher Carey Date >> 1999

Commissioned to replace the previous Nomen by the Artbeat committee, the sundial is based on the design of the traditional waka sails used by the first canoes to NZ. The base represents the 'mapping' used by Polynesian navigators of shells and sticks as researched and documented by David Lewis the NZ anthropologist and sailor who ensured through his writings that the knowledge lived on. It was his writings that allowed contemporary Polynesian wakas to navigate around the Pacific.
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