Maui decided he would get fire to warm his people. The Guardian of the fire was Maui's Grandmother who lived in a cave in the mountains. Maui visited his magical Grandmother. She had four fingernails that burned with the fire that Maui wanted. She gave Maui one finger nail and in his excitement to get home he tripped and fell into the river and extinguished the flame. Maui's Grantmother was quite annoyed when he returned asking for more fire but she gave him another fingernail and sent him on his way. Maui decided to walk back along the mountains far from the river but the wind was so strong that it extinguished the flame. Maui returned to his now very annoyed Grandmother who gave him her third fingernail of flame. Maui decided to stay away from the river and the mountains. He travelled back through the darkest thickest forest. Unfortunatly the air was so damp that it extinguished the flame once again. Maui's return to his Grandmother was met with fury and when she saw him she flung her fourth finger of flame straight at him which started the forest to burn. In this scuplture we see Maui fleeing the flames.

Timber is Macrocarpa weighing approximately 750 kg.

Carved by Chris Ramsay.