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Story: Hōiho – horses and iwi

Remutaka Hill Road

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Rimutaka Hill Road

This 1854 painting by John Pearse shows a Māori family walking along the Remutaka Hill Road with a single horse.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: E-455-f-073-1

by John Pearse

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Basil Keane, Hōiho – horses and iwi – Introduction of horses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/17807/remutaka-hill-road (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.