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Story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting

Whānau outside a wharepuni

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Whānau outside a wharepuni

A whānau group is shown outside a wharepuni (sleeping house) at Manga-a-Kuta, in the Wairarapa, probably in the 1870s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, James Bragge Collection

Reference: 1/2-004136-F

by James Bragge

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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Cindy Kiro, Ngā mātua – Māori parenting – Whānau and whāngai, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29213/whanau-outside-a-wharepuni (accessed 26 June 2026).

Story by Cindy Kiro, published 10 May 2011, updated 1 June 2017.