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Kōrero: Ideas about Māori origins

‘The death of Marion du Fresne’

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‘The death of Marion du Fresne’

E whakaatu ana te whakaahua nei i te whakamatenga o Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne i te whanga o Manawaora, i te tai tokerau, i te tau 1772. He rite te whakamōmona o ngā tohungatā o Uropi i ā rātou kōrero mō Te Moananui-a-Kiwa. He rite ake ngā poupou o te whare ki tētahi nō Roma.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: G-824-3

by Charles Meryon

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, 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 – 1840s–1930s: the Aryan theory, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/1593/the-death-of-marion-du-fresne (accessed 4 June 2026).

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