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Story: King, Michael

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Michael King as a young man, with long hair and a moustache, seated on a sofa and looking serious.

Michael King

Michael King as a bearded young man, seated on concrete steps outside a house with Ngakahikatea Whirihana, an elderly Māori woman with a moko (facial tattoo).

Recording moko

The Tāngata whenua team

The Tāngata whenua team

A smiling Michael King holds a copy of the book Māori: a photographic and social history open in front of him.

Writing Māori history

Michael King and Whina Cooper, standing either side of a carved pou (pole).

Michael King and Whina Cooper

Frank Sargeson and Michael King seated either side of a small table, talking. Books and papers are piled haphazardly behind Sargeson.

Interviewing Sargeson

Michael King, seated, holds a copy of his book Moriori open in front of him.

Tackling the Moriori myth

Michael King and Janet Frame, seated beside each other and smiling broadly.

King and Frame

Michael King stands on a jetty with a body of water and hilly coastal landscape behind him.

Being Pākehā

Michael King, seated at an outdoor table, holding a copy of his book.

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