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Story: Hōiho – horses and iwi

Horse and sled

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Horse and sled

The baggage of the manuhiri (visitors) is taken across the beach on a sled drawn by horses, en route to the meeting house at Marokopa, on the west coast of the North Island.

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Reference: Anne Salmond, Hui: a study of Maori ceremonial gatherings. Auckland: A. H & A. W. Reed, 1976

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Basil Keane, Hōiho – horses and iwi – Horses in Māori culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17819/horse-and-sled (accessed 26 June 2026).

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