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Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga pā

Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga pā

Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga pā

This 1840 drawing shows two built by Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga during a contest to gain control of land at Waitangi on Rēkohu (Chatham Island). Ngāti Mutunga, whose larger pā is on the left, eventually won.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: B-043-015-2
Ink drawing by Charles Heaphy

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.




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