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Story: Papatūānuku – the land

Welcome at Kāwhia

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Welcome at Kāwhia

A chief of the Ngāti Hikairo people welcomes Governor-General Sir William Jervois and his party at Kāwhia in 1884. In the pōwhiri (formal welcome), the tangata whenua (people of the land) welcome visitors onto their marae.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, E. R. Williams Collection

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, Papatūānuku – the land – Whenua – the placenta, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11438/welcome-at-kawhia (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, published 1 March 2009.