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Story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations

Papawai Pā, 1897

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Papawai Pā, 1897

This photograph was probably taken at one of the sessions of the Kotahitanga, the Māori Parliament, held at Papawai in the Wairarapa in 1897.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, R. Keedwell Collection (PAColl-1892)

Reference: PAColl-1892-77

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ngapare Hopa, Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations – 19th-century Māori organisations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29681/papawai-pa-1897 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ngapare Hopa, published 3 May 2011, updated 1 June 2017.