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Biography: Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi

Witarina Harris, kaumatua

Witarina Harris, kaumatua

In later life Witarina Harris served as a kaumatua for the New Zealand Film Archive (later Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) and as an ambassador for New Zealand film. Here she poses with a photograph of her younger self, in 2007. 

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Emma-Jean Kelly. 'Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47237/witarina-harris-kaumatua (accessed 4 June 2026).