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Raharuhi Rukupō depicted himself holding a carver's adze in this pou whenua (ancestral pillar), part of the great meeting house Te Hau-ki-Tūranga. This and other whare whakairo (carved houses) built on the East Coast from the early 1840s established the best-known conventions of Māori architecture in the present day.
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