Story: Kotahitanga – unity movements

Māori councils: Parihaka management committee

This photograph, taken in the 1880s, shows the first committee of management at Parihaka, in Taranaki. Parihaka, led by the prophets Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, was a type of kotahitanga (unity) movement.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, W. A. Collis Collection

Reference: 10x8-1752-G

by W. A. Collis

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Basil Keane, Kotahitanga – unity movements – Parliamentary unity movements, 1870 to 1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33592/maori-councils-parihaka-management-committee (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 15 June 2012.

Comments

Margret
08 September 2015

Our tipuna, Rangi Matotoru Watene (of Matarikoriko, Waitara) is on middle row, second right.