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Story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting

Māori woman with child

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Māori woman with child

A young Māori woman carries her child on her back in a traditional way, in a painting from the 1880s. She holds a flax kete containg peaches.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: E-053-018

by John Philemon Backhouse

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Cindy Kiro, Ngā mātua – Māori parenting – Types of parenting, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/29251/maori-woman-with-child (accessed 26 June 2026).

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