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Story: Te kawa o te marae

Tamahau Mahupuku and the Hikurangi Brass Band

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Tamahau Mahupuku and the Hikurangi Brass Band

Tamahau Mahupuku, a wealthy Ngāti Kahungunu political leader, sits in the front of this wagon which leads a procession involving the Hikurangi Brass Band, which he sponsored. The band played at the welcome for tribes to the Kotahitanga Māori parliament at Papawai, near Greytown in Wairarapa, in 1897.

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Basil Keane, Te kawa o te marae – Mythology and history of marae protocol, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41369/tamahau-mahupuku-and-the-hikurangi-brass-band (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 22 April 2013.