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Story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society

Labourers: shearers

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Labourers: shearers

This group of Māori shearers pose at Eparaima homestead, near Castlepoint, Wairarapa, at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, George Moore Collection

Reference: 1/2-065449-F

by George Moore

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Basil Keane, Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society – Changes in leadership, 19th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31167/labourers-shearers (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 3 May 2011.