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Beginnings - Musket Wars
The start of the musket wars is attributed to the Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika.
The return of Hongi Hika, painting
This image by an unknown artist shows a large waka taua (war canoe) decorated with severed heads returning to the Bay of Islands in January 1819
Thomas Kendall, Hongi Hika and Waikato, 1820
The Rev. Thomas Kendall and the Māori chiefs Hongi Hika and Waikato, 1820.
Meeting with Hongi Hika
In this painting, Meeting of the artist and Hongi at the Bay of Islands, November 1827, by Augustus Earle, Hongi Hika is seated in the centre with huia feathers in his hair.
Thomas Kendall with Hongi Hika
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.
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