“He wāhine, he whenua ka ora te tangata”
It is by women and by land, that the people are given life

In te ao Māori there is a synergy between women and land, and that without one or the other or both, man [humanity] will not survive. The representation of wāhine, therefore [sic], is a wider discussion about land and the continuation of whakapapa’ 2018 M. Eria, ‘Te ao Māori : The synergy between women and the land’