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Story: Te Āti Awa of Wellington

Te Puni’s pā at Petone, 1847

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Te Puni’s pā at Petone, 1847

This sketch of the Petone area shows at right the palisade of a established by the Te Āti Awa leader Te Puni. When he and other Te Āti Awa people from Ngāmotu in Taranaki arrived at Waikanae in 1832, they were invited to settle at Petone, on Wellington Harbour, with some of their Ngāti Mutunga kin.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-190-015

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Morris Love, Te Āti Awa of Wellington – 1830s: settling the land, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/1290/te-punis-pa-at-petone-1847 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Morris Love, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.