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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