Story: Kotahitanga – unity movements

Māori councils: Parihaka management committee

This photograph, taken in the 1880s, shows the first committee of management at Parihaka, in Taranaki. Parihaka, led by the prophets Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, was a type of kotahitanga (unity) movement.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, W. A. Collis Collection

Reference: 10x8-1752-G

by W. A. Collis

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Basil Keane, Kotahitanga – unity movements – Parliamentary unity movements, 1870 to 1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33592/maori-councils-parihaka-management-committee (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 15 June 2012.

Comments

Margret
08 September 2015

Our tipuna, Rangi Matotoru Watene (of Matarikoriko, Waitara) is on middle row, second right.