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Kapa haka‘Kia kōrero te katoa o te tinana – the whole body should speak,’ said haka master Henare Teowai of this traditional art form...
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Take a trip back to the 1960s
A. H. McLintock's 'An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand' was published in 1966.
View the digitised version and gain a sense of what New Zealand was like 50 years ago.
