Story: Whānau – Māori and family

Kāinga

Kāinga

This 1848 sketch shows a kāinga (village) at Ōpita, Thames. Historically a kāinga would comprise a number of whānau groups.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: A-143-015
Watercolour by Joseph Jenner Merrett

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Tai Walker, 'Whānau – Māori and family - Contemporary understandings of whānau', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/artwork/30136/kainga (accessed 29 September 2023)

Story by Tai Walker, published 5 May 2011, updated 1 Jun 2017