• Maori Cooking Summary Page
• L3 Maori Cooking Issue Timeline
• L3 Notes from Vol 2
• L3 Campbell Paterson Notes
• L3a 1935 May1 Original Issue with single watermark W7
• L3b 1935 Nov Experimental Wet Printing with brown gum Watermark W.7
• L3c 1936 Feb Experimental Wet Printing Wmk inverted and reversed W7e
• L3d 1936 June Change to watermark W8
• LO3a 1936 Official Overprint Original Issue with Single watermark W7
• LO3b 1936 March Official Overprint Experimental Wet Print W7
• LO3d 1936 July Official Overprint Change to watermark W8

A young Maori woman lowering into a boiling spring a “kete” of food for cooking is the subject of the stamp. The Kete is a basket plaited from flax. On her head she is wearing a “pare” (headband). From her waist hangs a “piu-piu” made from flax blades, scraped at intervals and immersed in dye which bleaches scraped portions, leaving the rest a natural brown colour. The blades of the flax on drying curl into tubes, which with each movement of the wearer, make a soft rustling sound. The side panels represent the “poupou” which alternates with the panel of reed-work (tukutuku) along the inside walls of the larger Maori “whares” or houses.
 
Artist: Mr. M Mathews, Wellington   Colour: Copper brown

Updated 3/7/2016