Manulua artworks

Tongan artist's manulua sculptures flank Auckland Museum's massive hovering tanoa bowl

Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi is behind the Manulua artworks, which ​are seen on either side of the atrium’s impressive hovering Tanoa bowl.

"I was able to help create the design and from then it went into architecture and then engineering. This year the whole process stopped because of the virus and then we started again until it was finished," says Tohi.

PMN News reports he  says the theme of migration is one of the many meanings behind the Manulua.