MAORI QUEEN'S FUNERAL ON SACRED TAUPIRI MOUNTAlN.—Thousands of sorrowing natives bowed in mourning as the funeral cortege of the Waikato Maori Queen, Te Marae Mahuta, left Waahi Pa, near Huntly, yesterday. The top picture shows the procession leaving the Pa. On the left, in front of the meeting-house is the blue flag of the Maori kings flying half-mast. Lower (left): The ceremonial shelter where the dead Queen’s body lay during the week’s tangi, showing the “guardians of the spirit of Te Marae." Right: Ten men carried the coffin across the railway line and up the steep side of the mountain. Inset: One of the many grief-stricken Maori women.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 16
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108MAORI QUEEN'S FUNERAL ON SACRED TAUPIRI MOUNTAlN.—Thousands of sorrowing natives bowed in mourning as the funeral cortege of the Waikato Maori Queen, Te Marae Mahuta, left Waahi Pa, near Huntly, yesterday. The top picture shows the procession leaving the Pa. On the left, in front of the meeting-house is the blue flag of the Maori kings flying half-mast. Lower (left): The ceremonial shelter where the dead Queen’s body lay during the week’s tangi, showing the “guardians of the spirit of Te Marae." Right: Ten men carried the coffin across the railway line and up the steep side of the mountain. Inset: One of the many grief-stricken Maori women. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 16
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