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Whānau eating together

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Whānau eating together

Gottfried Lindauer's early-20th-century painting 'The time of kai' shows all generations of a whānau eating together in a kāinga.

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Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki

by Gottfried Lindauer

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Cindy Kiro, Ngā mātua – Māori parenting – Whānau and whāngai, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/29215/whanau-eating-together (accessed 26 June 2026).

Story by Cindy Kiro, published 10 May 2011, updated 1 June 2017.