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Hākari, 1930s

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Hākari, 1930s

This is a hākari (feast) being prepared at a tangi in Taranaki in the 1930s. The style of food is more European than traditional Māori, and includes bananas, bread, biscuits and bottles of drink, all on a tablecloth on the ground.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, J. R. Wall Collection

Reference: 1/2-017653-G

by John Reginald Wall

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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Rawinia Higgins, Tangihanga – death customs – The tangihanga process, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28789/hakari-1930s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins, published 3 May 2011.