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Feather cloaks

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Feather cloaks

These Māori women at Whakarewarewa, near Rotorua, about 1900, are wearing cloaks made of kiwi feathers. The group includes the distinguished guides Sophia Hinerangi and Maggie Papakura.

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Jock Phillips, Kiwi – Kiwi and people: early history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/10185/feather-cloaks (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.