Story: Kotahitanga – unity movements

Māori councils: Parihaka management committee (2nd of 3)

Māori councils: Parihaka management committee

This photograph, taken in the 1880s, shows the first committee of management at Parihaka, in Taranaki. Parihaka, led by the prophets Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, was a type of kotahitanga (unity) movement.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, W. A. Collis Collection
Reference: 10x8-1752-G
Photograph by W. A. Collis

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, 'Kotahitanga – unity movements - Parliamentary unity movements, 1870 to 1900', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/33592/maori-councils-parihaka-management-committee (accessed 30 September 2023)

Story by Basil Keane, published 20 Jun 2012