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- in ''The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse'' 1960 Ed. Allen Curnow, Penguin Books.
 
- in ''The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse'' 1960 Ed. Allen Curnow, Penguin Books.
  
Brasch visited the beach often as a child, sometimes searching for Maori "curios" with his collector grandfather, Willi Fells. (Brasch, C. 1980 ''Indirections'' Oxford University Press, pp.18-19.)
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Brasch visited the beach often as a child, sometimes searching for Maori "curios" with his collector grandfather, Willi Fels. (Brasch, C. 1980 ''Indirections'' Oxford University Press, pp.18-19.) See [[Willi Fels Collection|Willi Fels Collection]].
  
 
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Latest revision as of 16:40, 15 March 2017

Pipikariti

Pipikaretu

Charles Brasch

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 form of the name.

- in The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse 1960 Ed. Allen Curnow, Penguin Books.

Brasch visited the beach often as a child, sometimes searching for Maori "curios" with his collector grandfather, Willi Fels. (Brasch, C. 1980 Indirections Oxford University Press, pp.18-19.) See Willi Fels Collection.