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Kōrero: Nation and government

Te whakamau i te koru

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Wearing the silver fern

Ahakoa kāore tōna mana ā-ture, mai anō i tōna mautanga tuatahi e te kapa whutupaoro Māori ki Peretānia i te tau 1888, he tohu whakahirahira te koru nō Aotearoa. I te nuinga o te wā, ka whakamahia tēnei tohu ki runga i ngā kākahu o ngā kapa hākinakina, ki runga hoki i ngā kākahu me ngā urupā o ngā ope taua. He waitohu anō tēnei e whakamahia ana ki roto i ngā mahi hoko ki tai mō te mīti me ngā hua miraka. I tīmata mai te ia o te tā tuhi ki runga i te tinana i te kaitākaro poiuka i a Kim Dermott. I tū a ia ki Ngā Taumāhekeheke o te Ao i te tau 2000. Kei runga anō i te hoahoanga nei, ko ngā porowhita o Ngā Taumāhekeheke o te Ao. Ko tētahi o ngā porowhita e mau ana i ngā kōtuitui o te pōro poiuka.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

New Zealand Herald

Reference: 6 September 2000

by Paul Estcourt

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Wilson, Nation and government – Nationhood and identity, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2579/te-whakamau-i-te-koru (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009, updated 1 September 2016.

Comments

Tracy Carr
25 September 2011
Could you please send me more information regarding the design of the silver fern, I have was told whether it be true or not that my Great Great Grandfather(Poua) was attributed to designing it his name is Raniera Ellison Born 15th November 1839