Land Claims Commissioner William Spain sits, with scribes on either side, in a raupō hut at an 1844 hearing into pre-treaty land claims in New Plymouth. Around the hut are members of an iwi, probably Te Āti Awa, whose land was purportedly bought by the New Zealand Company.
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Wash drawing by Edwin Harris
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