Members of the Royal New Zealand Navy lead the advance party as the kawe mate (ceremony to remember the dead) for the late Māori queen, Te Atairangikaahu, moves onto the marae. Her son Tūheitia Paki, the Māori king, stands in the background beside a photograph of his mother held by a young mourner. In the kawe mate an image of the deceased is brought to mourners.
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