This is the claw of the Giant Haste Eagle Raptor before extinction. The claw you can see is of an actual claw size of the Pou Hakuwai, the Giant Haste Eagle Raptor. This claw was taken from a real skeleton. Actual claw size, 23cm's in height, 12cm talon in length. Te Pou Hakuwai along with the Tuatara are the physical embodiment of IO in the physical world, from the extinction of the Haste Eagle Raptor that mantle is carried by The  Kārearea - Hawk and the Tuatara.

The claw is placed here to give Te Kanohi Ora, Te Mataora and Mauri Ora  - The Living Statement Of Being , IO Standing In All Time, Mana Atua (spiritual authority). Hence the whakatauāki or proverb, " He Matihere Kura, He Pou Hakuwai Rangi Na Rehua IO-Ariki, To hold the claws of the Giant Haste Eagle, Means to hold the responsibility and authority of the Rangitūhaha." As IO is visible again to the IO Tohungatanga (Priesthood), so is Te Matihere Kura, the foot and claw of Te Pou Hakuwai to humanity.