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He Heru. a Comb: An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body Volume 7

He Heru. a Comb: An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body Volume 7

Hereaka, Whiti

Paperback

Series: Objects Talk Back

Letters & EssaysAfrican Art

Publisher Price: $10.00

ISBN10: 3035808651
ISBN13: 9783035808650
Publisher: Diaphanes
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.10 Width: 4.00 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
In Whiti Hereaka's new fiction collection, a single comb becomes a universe of stories.

Drawing inspiration from a seemingly simple comb, or heru, this new text by Whiti Heraka comes in nine sections, a part for each tooth, and a part for each space between them. The parts tell stories of love, loss, and longing: tales of whales whose bones were used to make objects, of a carver creating a comb, of Maori 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. Hereaka unfurls a stunning cosmology around the heru, combing with it through time and space to make stories of ocean blue, blood red, bone white.

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