by Morris Love
During the 1820s and 1830s, members of Te Āti Awa and other tribes left their ancestral home in Taranaki and travelled south in four great migrations, finally reaching the Kapiti coast and Wellington Harbour. After the arrival of the first English settlers in the area, many important sites were lost in the pressure for land.
Main image: Pipitea pā, 1842
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