Tamahau Mahupuku, a wealthy Ngāti Kahungunu political leader, sits in the front of this wagon which leads a procession involving the Hikurangi Brass Band, which he sponsored. The band played at the welcome for tribes to the Kotahitanga Māori parliament at Papawai near Greytown, in Wairarapa, in 1897.
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