Pages tagged with: hongi hika

The start of the musket wars is attributed to the Ngapuhi chief Hongi Hika.

This image by an unknown artist shows a large waka taua (war canoe) decorated with severed heads returning in January, 1819

The Rev. Thomas Kendall and the Maori chiefs Hongi Hika and Waikato, 1820.

The painting Meeting of the artist and Hongi at the Bay of Islands, November 1827 by Augustus Earle shows canoes, a storehouse and carved objects. Hongi Hika is seated in the centre with huia feathers in his hair.

Missionary Thomas Kendall is painted with Waikato and Hongi Hika in London in 1820. In 1815 Kendall wrote the first book to be published in the Maori language.