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Story: Hōiho – horses and iwi

Waiohiki

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Waiohiki

A large number of horses and some carts wait outside the home of the chief Tāreha Te Moananui at Waiohiki, Hawke’s Bay, in the 1860s. By that time, horses were common among Māori in the area. The missionary William Colenso noted that within a few years of seeing a horse led from Rotorua to Clive in 1847, every Hawke’s Bay Māori who could afford to had bought one.

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Basil Keane, Hōiho – horses and iwi – Introduction of horses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17808/waiohiki (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.