John Nicol Crombie took this posed photograph of Ngāpuhi leader Eruera Maihi Patuone some time between 1856 and 1862. Crombie noted that when Hare Pōmare saw the photograph in London in 1863 he greeted the image of his uncle with a hongi.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, William Strutt Collection (E-452-f)
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E-452-f-003-2
Photograph by John Nichol Crombie
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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