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Story: Māori non-fiction and scholarship – ngā tuhinga me te rangahau

Bruce Biggs and Hugh Kawharu

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Bruce Biggs and Hugh Kawharu

Polynesian Society president Bruce Biggs (left) introduces Professor Hugh Kawharu (Ngāti Whātua) as the recipient of the Elsdon Best Memorial Medal during the centenary of the Polynesian Society in 1992.  

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Basil Keane, Māori non-fiction and scholarship – ngā tuhinga me te rangahau – Māori academic writing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/46460/bruce-biggs-and-hugh-kawharu (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 22 December 2014.