Kaingaroa, New Zealand

An important Mario petroglyph site (V17/3) is located in the Kaingaroa National Forest in New Zealand and was visited on 9 March 2023.

Decorated canoe with a red ochre line underneath it.

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Petroglyph of a human face with extended tongue resembling pukana (Maori, tongue poking).

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Fern lined path through the forest to the petroglyph Site

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Michael Fuller

Plan prepared in the 1950s of the petroglyphs in the rock shelter in Kaingaroa National Forest, New Zealand.

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Numerous canoes and wavy lines pattterns were cut into the bedrock wall of the rock shelter.

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Bow of a large canoe on the right hand side of the rock shelter.

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Professor Michael Fuller at the protected petroglyph site in Kaingaroa National Forest, New Zealand.

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