He Heru. A Comb - An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body
| Verlag | diaphanes |
| Auflage | 20.04.2026 |
| Format | 11,2 x 0,5 x 17,1 cm |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Objekte widersprechen - Objects Talk Back |
| ISBN-10 | 3035808651 |
| EAN | 9783035808650 |
| Bestell-Nr | 03580865A |
An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body
From a seemingly simple comb, the award-winning novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka creates a mirror work of reverence and beauty. It is a text in nine sections, "a part for each tooth, and a part for each space between them". The parts tell stories of love, loss, longing, including tales of whales from whose bones objects were made, of a carver creating a comb, of Mori gods and the power of women, of colonial whalers fishing their prey almost to extinction in the South Pacific, of a writer who cuts her hair and moves across worlds weaving connections.
