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Cloaked Māori chiefs

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Cloaked Māori chiefs

This detail shows three Māori chiefs in the foreground. In the right background are two Aborigines, distinguishable from the chiefs by their darker skin and their attire – they are clad only in loincloths.

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National Library of Australia, Rex Nan Kivell Collection

Reference: NK259/B

by Robert Havell

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Carl Walrond, Māori overseas – 18th- and 19th-century travellers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/3557/cloaked-maori-chiefs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 March 2009.