Ours is the life of the moon, 1976
Record number
cm000410
Title
Ours is the life of the moon
Date
1976
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
293 x 214 mm (s)
Inscriptions
FOR Jean / a little poem from the Far North. Colin '76. / A rugged translation (pencil, b.l.-b.r.)
Collection
Extended inscriptions
OURS IS AS THE
LIFE OF THE
MOON
ONE GENERATION
falls
And another rises
OURS IS THE
LIFE OF THE
MOON
LIFE OF THE
MOON
ONE GENERATION
falls
And another rises
OURS IS THE
LIFE OF THE
MOON
Notes
The text is derived from chapters 17 and 24 of Matire Kereama's The Tail of the Fish: Maori Memories of the Far North (1968).