From 1976 to 1980, Matahi Brightwell worked with a team of four others to carve a 14-metre-high (46 ft) sculpture of Ngātoro-i-rangi into the cliffside at Mine Bay, Lake Taupō. The sculpture is surrounded by smaller sculptures of tūpuna (ancestors) and kaitiaki (guardians). Brightwell's grandmother, Te Huatahi Susie Gilbert, had requested that he carve a sculpture of...