These three flags were all used in the Pai Mārire (Hauhau) faith. The top flag, the flag of prophet Te Ua Haumēne, features the word ‘Kenana’ (Canaan), a club and two heart shapes. The middle flag is Rīwha Titokowaru's flag. Titokowaru, also a prophet of the Pai Mārire faith, led the fight against the government in Taranaki in the late 1860s. At the bottom is the flag of Topia Tūroa, another Pai Mārire adherent.
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F.7056/41 - W. F. Gordon, Te Ua flag; ;
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