Full original colors. No folds, no creases, no pinholes, no paper splits, no counting bends. Exotic imagery, high visual appeal. Prefixes vary.
ALthough the colour pattern changes from note to note, the obverse side of all notes is identical. The design has been adopted from a painting by a local artist, Mr. Rick Welland and it depicts the legend of Ina and the shark.
Folklore has it that in Eastern Polynesid there was a god of the Ocean called Tinirau. He lived on a floating island clled the Sacred Isle Motu-Tpau and his loved one Ina is told of in a song from the island of Mangaia:
'Like a solitary tree is Ina Who commited herself to the winds Ina invoked the aid of many fish To bear her gaily on their backs The lordy shark to convey her safely To the royal Tinirau 'er the sea Alas the bruised head of the angry monster Who hitherto had obeyed the trembling maid Who opened a coconut On her voyage to the Sacred Isle Softly she beats the drum Tinirau is enchanted By the music of the lovely one.' |
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