'I have looked upon the faces of these strange people...' Patuone, a Nga Puhi leader
As a child Patuone, a Nga Puhi leader, peacemaker, trader and government adviser claimed to have seen James Cook's ship near Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands around 1769.
'I looked upon the faces of the strange people' he said in old age 'and I wondered greatly'.
He was present in 1840 at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and is remembered as both a warrior and a peace-maker between the Maori and the Europeans. When this photograph was taken in the 1860s Patuone was involved in negotiations with Governor Grey, trying to avert a new series of violent land wars then erupting in the North Island.
The beard which covers his Moko, and the British army cap on the table next to him indicate that he worked closely with Europeans and affected their style of dress, but his cloak and Maori staff of office show that this leader moved between two worlds.
When he died in 1872, 500 mourners both Maori and Pakeha (European) attended his funeral and the government erected a plaque at his grave which celebrated Patuone as a 'warm friend of Europeans, supporter of the Queen's laws, and Peacemaker'.
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