Māori

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Māori performing kapa haka

Māori woman, c. 1890–1920

Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao

Māori meetinghouse

Detail of a carving on a Maori meetinghouse in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand.

Māori hei-tiki neck ornament

Māori carving, Rotorua

carvings; Māori meetinghouse, New Zealand

Maori masks, New Zealand.

Māori meetinghouse, New Zealand

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Māori performing kapa haka

Māori woman, c. 1890–1920

Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao

Māori meetinghouse

Detail of a carving on a Maori meetinghouse in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand.

Māori hei-tiki neck ornament

Māori carving, Rotorua

carvings; Māori meetinghouse, New Zealand

Maori masks, New Zealand.

Māori meetinghouse, New Zealand

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Alfred Domett

prime minister of New Zealand

Wiremu Kīngi

Māori chief

Āpirana Ngata

Āpirana Ngata

New Zealand politician

Māui Pōmare

Māui Pōmare

Māori statesman

Anne Salmond

New Zealand anthropologist and historian

Buck, Sir Peter

Sir Peter Buck

Māori anthropologist, physician, and politician

Sir Raymond Firth

New Zealand anthropologist