Kōrero: Cultural go-betweens

James K. Baxter's friends and neighbours, including the carver Greg Whakataka-Brightwell (front, in checked shirt), carry his coffin at his tangi at Jerusalem on the Whanganui River, where Baxter spent the last years of his life. In his poetry and his daily life, Baxter, a Pākehā, tried to integrate Māori concepts such as manaakitanga (hospitality to friend and stranger) with his own European cultural traditions.