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Story: Whānau – Māori and family

Pūtiki Wharanui Pā, Whanganui

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Pūtiki Wharanui Pā, Whanganui

This watercolour by J. G. Gilfillan shows the at Pūtiki Wharanui on the Whanganui River. Whānau members in the foreground are engaged in wood carving, while a man with a child on his back stands near a pātaka (store house).

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: C-142-003

by John Gilfillan

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Tai Walker, Whānau – Māori and family – Contemporary understandings of whānau, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/30142/putiki-wharanui-pa-whanganui (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tai Walker, published 3 May 2011, updated 1 June 2017.