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This portrait of Rewi Maniapoto, chief of the Ngāti Maniapoto tribe, shows him wearing a pair of huia feathers, a mark of high status.
Listen to Hēnare Hāmana imitating the call of the huia.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: 26325
Artwork: Alexander Turnbull Library, E-204-q-016. Photolithograph by Leonard Mitchell
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