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Story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism

Guides Maggie and Bella

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Guides Maggie and Bella

Mākereti (Maggie) Papakura (left) and her half-sister Bella, seen here around 1910, were two renowned Whakarewarewa guides from Tūhourangi. Mākereti later moved to England and studied anthropology at Oxford University.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Leslie Hinge Collection (PAColl-3050)

Reference: 1/1-021979; G

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Paul Diamond, Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism – 20th-century Māori tourism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23719/guides-maggie-and-bella (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Diamond, published 2 March 2010.