NZ Paua

This picture is made from pieces of paua shell, stuck on a piece of painted board. It actually came about because I broke the paua necklace I was making, so thought I'd see how the pieces would fit on a map of New Zealand...

The Maori words for the National Anthem translate as follows:

Let all people,
Red skin, white skin,
Maori, Pakeha,
Gather before You.
May all our wrongs, we pray,
be forgiven.
So that we may say long live
Aotearoa (The land of the long white cloud)