English: Overmantel - mirror frame Overmantel Mirror Frame attributed to Tene Waitere Top panels- feature manaia figures along length, with surface carving of rauponga and haehae. Triangular panels below has central wheku figure with rauponga and haehae on torso and diamond notching on remainder of body. Flanked by manaia figures with rauponga and haehae. Side Panels-Feature rolling spirals (koru) with rauponga patterns. Bottom Panel- Has central wheku head, flanked by manaia figures. All figures and the carved border above feature rauponga and haehae patterns. Free standing posts have three wheku figures with rauponga pattern on faces and legs. Base of posts have wheku head at front and manaia figures at left and right sides. All figures and carved section at top of base feature rauponga patterns. Wheku heads have whakarare design across forehead. From Webb's auction catalogue 0406 An Overmantel Mirror Frame attributed to Tene Waitere (1868 – 1940) (si). Waitere was taught carving by his elder realtives at Rotorua and was subsequently employed by the manager of the Geyser Hotel at Whakarewarewa as a professional carver from 1892. In a workshop there he carved architectural pieces for the hotel as well as for the thermal area. He was involved with carving on many houses at Rotorua including Hatutapu as well as gateways and palisades at Whakarewarewa. Significantly to this item he carved massive mantelpieces for the Grand Hotel Auckland and the Grand Hotel Rotorua. This frame is based around the fascia carvings of a whare whakiro. The barge boards (maihi) are carved with pairs of contorted manaia figures supported on figurative uprights in the manner of whakawae (door jambs) flanked by panels of conjoined rauru spirals. The lower panel replicates the papaekaiawha threshold board. Beneath the barge boards is a gable board detailed with multiple manaia heads flanking a standing figure. The central koruru mask is missing. This frame was stored for decades in a shed in Parnell. W.2075mm. Y registered