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Story: Ngā tamariki

Whai (string game)

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Whai (string game)

This Tourist Department photograph from about 1900 shows two girls with whai, the Māori form of a string game.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Rawinia Higgins me Paul Meredith, Ngā tamariki – Māori children’s upbringing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30546/whai-string-game (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins me Paul Meredith, published 3 May 2011.