Hone Wiremu Heke Pokai and his wife Hariata. Hone Heke was a Maori rangatira (chief) of the Ngapuhi iwi (tribe) and a war leader in northern New Zealand, Chief in feather cloak, club, facial tattoos. Maori chief Heki and wife, from the Bay of Island, New Zealand. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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