A Page from my Journal
Waewae-kaka
This is a page from my journal made while I work on The Book of Flowers. A common fern
waewae-kaka or tangle fern can often be seen beneath your feet as you walk through the bush.
The orange berries of the native New Zealand iris mikoikoi are on the left, the silhouette of a native moth and the pale fern looper at the bottom and fallen pohutukawa leaves from
Raumati Beach lie in between.
By the tangle fern is the silhouette of a heitiki - an ancestor figure and the goddess of childbirth.
all photographs copyright to Frances Jill Studd 2014
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