This is the Maori god of Earthquakes and Volcanic activity.

  This is Zhang Heng's earthquake recorder.  The quakes shake both the ground and the instrument.  The instrument strikes the free-standing pendulum inside, which in turn hits the rod attached to a dragons mouth. This releases a ball and  it falls into the toads mouth.  there are 8 toads pointing to the 8 compass directions.  This is from early China.

  This car is made out of corrugated iron, a common roofing material in NZ.  It was also driven for several years.

  Corey and the waka at the Te Papa.

  Close up of some of the carvings on the waka.

  This ball of silver ferns (the shapes making up the ball) hangs over the civic  square.

  There were several modern art bits around the civic square.  Corey and one of the bridges.

  Maori art work at the City and Sea Museum in Wellington.

  One of the bookstores, Dymocks, has a complete collection of Lord of the Rings memorabilia.

   This is one of the display cases.

  You can even get mosaic picture posters.

  Corey and the life size Golum that was made specially by Weta for this Dymocks.

  Golum from a frontal view.

  This is the Embassy theater in Wellington.  It had the Australasia premiers of the Fellowship and Two Towers and the World premier of the Return of the King.  Corey and I saw Finding Neverland here.