Parāone’s horses: — a letter from Hōhepa Tamamutu, 1875
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When horses were first introduced to Aotearoa they were so rare and expensive that they were owned only by the most powerful families. In Taupō in 1844, a travelling artist, G. F. Angas, found that the only horse in the region belonged to Te Wāka, son of the great Te Heuheu. Sent as a present by a northern rangatira (Te Wāka Nēnē), the animal had been shipped to Tauranga then taken overland with much trouble and excitement. Now Te Wāka was to be seen galloping along the shores of the lake, and young people had covered ‘nearly every flat board within the settlement’ with ‘numberless charcoal drawings of men on horseback’ (Angas II, 111-12).
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1999-06-06
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