19th Century Carved Wooden Whakawae Door Jamb

Carved wooden whakawae (door Jamb) section, the early 19th century architectural piece carved with three conjoined ancestral figures with naturalistic bodies and wheku faces mounted on an intricately carved support with side profile wheku heads and takarangi double spirals with pakati detailing. Some losses evident, Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland, 78 cm length., 78 cm length.