Rangi Hetet

Detail of a poupou by Rangi Hetet hanging in the Dowse Art Museum, one of a pair of poupou commissioned by the museum on their fifth anniversary in 1975. The poupou are carved wooden figures with inset pāua shell eyes. This figure represents Te Puni.

Te Rangikaiamokura Wirihana Hetet ONZM (born 18 April 1937) is a Māori master carver (tohunga whakairo) of Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto descent.