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Kōrero: Rural language

Nāti T-shirt

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Nāti T-shirt

Ramari McCarthy of the Ngāti Porou tribe wears a T-shirt printed with the word 'nāti' and a picture of a horse. Ngāti Porou use the word nāti to describe their horses, and as a nickname for the tribe. The same word, variously spelled ngati, naaiti and naati, was adopted by Pākehā settlers to describe a brumby or wild horse.

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Dianne Bardsley, Rural language – Māori influences, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18591/nati-t-shirt (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Dianne Bardsley, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.