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Story: Te Āti Awa of Taranaki

Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke’s pā

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Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke’s pā

This painting by 19th-century artist Henry James Warre depicts much of the Te Āti Awa area in north Taranaki. The scene is of Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke’s at Waitara in 1861, with the tribal boundary of Mt Taranaki in the background.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-236-020

by Henry James Warre

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Peter Adds, Te Āti Awa of Taranaki – Origins and lands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/783/wiremu-kingi-te-rangitakes-pa (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peter Adds, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.