These two young women, E Wai (seated) and Kahoki, shown here at Te Aro pā in Wellington in 1844, were nieces of Te Rauparaha, and of chiefly status. In the 1840s the New Zealand company bought much of Wellington, and promised that rangatira would receive one tenth of all the land, proposing that Māori commoners would work it.
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Watercolour by George French Angas
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