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A whakatauki by Kiingi Tawhiao affirming the relationship between Waikato Tainui and Taranaki is one of the inspirations for a major new exhibition at New Plymouth’s Govett Brewster Art Gallery.
Ngaati Korokii Kahukura artist Brett Graham says he dwelt on the whakatauki during a two month gallery residency in Taranaki in 2019, during which he visited Parihaka where Tawhiao sent 12 representatives to help the prophets with their work.
The exhibition includes a mine metre Niu pole, a symbol of the Hauhau movement that lives on in the practice of Pai Maarire which still goes on among Tainui Marae.