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Wahi Poupou in Green - M04115
Poupou are the panels in a marae depicting our ancestors and famed tribesmen, but wahi means parts or portions of... representing the fact that many full histories of our elders have been lost or fragmented, and the challenge for the modern Maori is to piece to together his own Whakapapa or genealogy from resources that were mainly passed orally.

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