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Mananui Te Heuheu, paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, sits at left in this group portrait by George French Angas. Following the death of his younger brother Pāpaka Te Naeroa at Ōtaki in the early 1830s, Mananui wrote the classic waiata tangi (lament) 'Taku tirotiro noa'.
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by George French Angas
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