Maori wooden memorial, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu, at Pipiriki

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Maori wooden memorial, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu, at Pipiriki

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TAPUHI

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Maori wooden memorial known as Nga Rangi-o-Rehua or Te Koanga-o-rehua, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu. Photograph taken in Pipiriki by William James Harding, between 1856 and 1886. This monument was made from a waka, cut in two. According to Sir Walter Buller, it was erected at Pipiriki, on the Whanganui River, about the year 1824. Circa 1865, it was brought down the river to a cemetery in Putiki. Some time later Major Kemp presented the monument to Sir Walter Bu...

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Image

Date created

between 1860 and 1890

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22800268

Locations

Pipiriki

Related subjects

Te Mahutu, -1824? / Māori (New Zealand people) / Monuments / Memorials / New Zealand / Manawatū-Whanganui Region / Sepulchral monuments / Urupā / Waka / Wood-carving, Māori / Pipiriki

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