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Portrait of a young Maori woman with a moko, long plaits, and a huia feather in her hair. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington in early ...

In 1815, the first British missionaries arrived in Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud). Dubbed Nieuw Zeeland by adventurer Abel Tasman Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland, the country would be changed in 1840 when the British and many Maori tribes signed the Treaty of Waitangi.

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A studio portrait showing a group of two men Teone Taare Tikao and Hoani Matiu (standing); and two women possibly Hera (Sarah) Te Wahia nee Antoni,...

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Makereti Papakura in the doorway of Te Rauru meeting house in Whakarewarewa. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis between circa 1901-1910. I...

As a young girl my Grandfather used to tell us the story of our great, great, great Grandfather Kamariera Te Hau Takiri Wharepapa, the Maori Chief who went to England to meet Queen Victoria and married an English girl. A copy of the painting by Lindauer took pride of place on the wall of my…

Three women wearing cloaks and taniko headbands sitting and standing on a flax mat above the Whanganui River. Photographed by James Ingram McDonal...

This wharepuni (sleeping house), in a Northland community, was painted by Augustus Earle in 1827. Although so low to the ground that the door must be entered on all fours, the building has been ornamented with a tekoteko (carved figure) above the entrance and an elaborate door frame, indicating ...

Carte de visite portrait of Maori man taken ca 1870s by American Photographic Company of Auckland. One of 6 prints (Ramsden Coll) PA2-0093-0098 Q...

Upper left: Standing portrait of a girl wrapped in a cloak, a fence and carved figure from Pipitea Pa behind her, along with a gourd stored on a ta...

A group at the Te Aro Pah, Port Nicholson by George French Angas

Steregraph of a house labelled Tukiterangi, location unknown, with Makereti Papakura on right. Woman on left, unidentified. Photograph taken circa ...