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Kōrero: Ideas about Māori origins

He whakaahua o Natai, i 1833

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Portrait of Natai, 1833

He whakaahua tēnei o tētahi tangata e mau ana i te momo bouffant makawe a Napoleon. Ki tā te hunga tumu kōrero ki ngā mahi toi, he tauira mārama tēnei mō te whakaaro o te Pākehā mō te ‘mohoao pai’. I ngā whenua o Ūropi i taua wā, ko te whakaaro o ngā tāngata, he tūturu ake te noho a ngā iwi tāngata whenua noho pātata ki te taiao, i tō te noho o te Pākehā ki roto i te ao hurihuri. I tauirahia tēnei lithograph i tētahi tānga huahua nā te tohungatā Wīwī, nā Louis Auguste de Sainson.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki

by Louis Auguste de Sainson

Permission of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

K. R. Howe, Ideas about Māori origins – 1770s–1840s: early ideas, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/1587/he-whakaahua-o-natai-i-1833 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā K. R. Howe, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009.