Whaaru (Leader of the Hursthouse Rescue Party)
Whaaru (Leader of the Hursthouse Rescue Party) wearing a cloak and holding a taiaha and his wife on the porch of Huatare Wahanui's House, Alexandra, New Zealand. In 1883 Wahanui led the party which rescued Hursthouse's surveyors who had been seized by Te Mahuki, the Maori Apocalyptic prophet in March 1883, at Te Uira. Te Mahuki was opposed to Hursthouse's survey of the proposed Main Trunk railway
Picture No
10640041
Media ID
45713355
Size
3555px x 5574px
(5.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
1885
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