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Story: Ideas about Māori origins

Postcards from ‘Maoriland’

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Postcards from ‘Maoriland’

This 1910 postcard depicts Victoria Bridge in Christchurch as part of ‘Māoriland’. At that time, tourist posters, postcards and books often referred to New Zealand by this term.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-2-17

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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How to cite this page

K. R. Howe, Ideas about Māori origins – 1880s–1970s: Moriori origins; the Great Fleet, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/1599/postcards-from-maoriland (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by K. R. Howe, published 4 March 2009.