Pipikariti - Charles Brasch
Pipikariti
Stone weapons, flint, obsidian,
Weed and waveworn shell and bone
Lie in mellowing sand with wood
Of wrecked ships and forests dead.
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Pipikaretu on Otago Peninsula has a wind-eroded archaeological site. Pipikariti was a useage for the name.
in The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse 1960 Ed. Allen Curnow, Penguin Books.
