Below Left to right: Wiremu Pou of Ngapuhi who returned home with an English bride. Huria Ngahuia of Ngati Whanaunga who presented Queen Victoria with the valuable tiki she wears. Victoria reciprocated with an expensive brooch. Hapimana Ngapiko of Ngati Awa who demonstrated the war dance to an English audience in Warwick Castle: "While pretending to attack the enemy, and uttering the terrible war cry... they hardly required to be told, as he told them, that 500 or 600 of his countrymen, grinning and threatening as he did, were terrifying to look upon," commented the local newspaper. A photograph taken in London in 1863 by Vernon Heath from the C.A. Brown Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 22, 1 February 1985, Page 28
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115Below Left to right: Wiremu Pou of Ngapuhi who returned home with an English bride. Huria Ngahuia of Ngati Whanaunga who presented Queen Victoria with the valuable tiki she wears. Victoria reciprocated with an expensive brooch. Hapimana Ngapiko of Ngati Awa who demonstrated the war dance to an English audience in Warwick Castle: "While pretending to attack the enemy, and uttering the terrible war cry... they hardly required to be told, as he told them, that 500 or 600 of his countrymen, grinning and threatening as he did, were terrifying to look upon," commented the local newspaper. A photograph taken in London in 1863 by Vernon Heath from the C.A. Brown Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. Tu Tangata, Issue 22, 1 February 1985, Page 28
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