Word: kahungunu
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Sadly, however, the proud masculine presence of the figure from Pukeroa pa has been diminished by the intervention of 19th century missionaries. The clerics wanted the genitalia removed from Maori sculptures. Many ancestral figures remained demonstrably unscathed, but others were particularly hard hit, like the celebrated Kahungunu, who was known throughout his tribe for the size of his sexual equipment. At the Metropolitan, he may be seen pointing pridefully to the tip of his long-vanished penis...
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