GALLERY
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Tuterei Karewa a chief of
the Ngati Maru of the Thames District, North Island. A superb portrait
depicting a sronger-than-usual moko highlighted by the photographer with
the use of black paint or some other substance. Here he is dressed in
a fine pihepihe shoulder cape with cylindrical tags of flax. Original
albumen photograph by Isles #108 circa 1890s. Collection of Mark and
Carolyn Blackburn.
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