Story: Ngāti Whātua
This 1842 engraving by Joseph Jenner Merrett is of the Ngāti Whātua chief Āpihai Te Kawau. While Te Kawau was absent in the 1820s, involved in a long campaign with Waikato tribes, Ngāpuhi under Hongi Hika took their revenge. They devastated much of the Auckland isthmus and dispersed many Ngāti Whātua.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0076-174
Lithograph by Joseph Jenner Merrett
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.