Discovery of oldest Māori photo opens new chapter for New Zealand history

Members of the Pomare whanau say the recent discovery in Australia of a photo of their whanaunga Hemi Pomara has opened a new chapter into Aotearoa's history It's the oldest known photographic portrait of a Maori. For decades, the image of a young Maori boy wrapped in a Korowai sat unattributed in the National Library of Australia until recently, when two Australian researchers identified the subject of the photograph as Hemi Pomara. After writing about their discovery in The Conversation, th...