Sculpture background

This sculpture, over ten metres high, cast in bronze and including fifty parts acts as a monumental and symbolic guardian figure. It protects the entrance and the integrity of the monetary system. The fifty parts form two taiaha (a traditional weapon) held by Ngan's signature 'tiki hands motif'.

It is an early example of the fusion of Maori and modernist European motifs to announce bicultural corporate identities and agendas.