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Armed constabulary prepare to advance on Parihaka pā, in Taranaki, in 1881. Parihaka was the centre of a peaceful resistance movement led by Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. The protesters tried to prevent surveying of land that had been confiscated in the 1860s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Parihaka Album
Reference: PA1-q-183-19
by W. A. Collis
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