Taiahas

Phyllis Mary Godber wearing a Maori cloak and holding a taiaha, standing beside a collection of items, including two fire-screens, carved in Maori style by her father Albert Percy Godber. Photograph taken at Si More

Maori chief, Menehira, poses he has a mustache, short, graying hair with feather decorations and extensive facial tattoos. He wears a cloak made of layers of flax fringe around his upper body and holds a woode More

The chiefs Waikato and Hongi Hika with missionary Thomas Kendall in England, oil painting by James Barry, 1820. National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, Alexander Turnbull Library, Welling More

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1933 NZ Silver Shilling. UNC. George V 1910- 1936 Crowned bust l., surrounding : "GEORGE V KING EMPEROR" / Maori holding Taiaha l., surrounding : "NEW ZEALAND ONE SHILLING 1933". KM 3. Medallist: KG (George Kr More

A view of The Bricks, the landing place on the Avon River by Barbadoes Street. Shows the river bank, a house close to the water and a second smaller house further back. On the right is a Maori man with a taiaha.

Honiana Te Puni-kokopu, d 1870. Shows Honiana Te Puni-kokopu standing, with full facial tattoo, clad in a dogskin cloak and holding a taiaha in his right hand. Behind him is Wellington Harbour with two Maori b More

Long staff (taiaha), Maori people, New Zealand, late 19th - early 20th century, carved wood with paua shell inlay, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 207.1

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A portrait of Eruera Maihi Patuone by Gottfried Lindauer.

A portrait of Te hira Te Kawau by Gottfried Lindauer. Public domain photograph of 19th-century male portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of Mr Paramena Public domain photograph of 19th-century male portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A portrait of Wiremu Kingi, from Turanganui on the New Zealand East Coast,

100806-A-IP583-082A New Zealand military service member stops to pay his respects at a memorial ceremony honoring New Zealand Army Lt. Timothy O'Donnell, with the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, at Bagram More

'War Speech', by Augustus Earle, depicting an event of 1827-1828. A Māori chief standing in a beached canoe, addressing a crowd of warriors, mostly seated, with a few standing. Two other long canoes are on the More

Chef Maori au taiaha. Maori chief holding a taiaha.

Shows Harriet, (Heke's wife), Hone Heke and Kawiti. Harriet (Hariata) is on the left in a European skirt, a Maori cloak worn as a stole around her upper body and tied at the waist, leaning on Heke's shoulder. More

Portrait of Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Henry Buck) dressed in Maori costume and holding a taiaha.

Wirimu Maihi Te Rangikāheke (1815?-1896), also known as William Marsh, circa 1865. He holds a weapon called a taiaha and a korowai (Māori tag cloak), and wears a feathered piupiu. He was a chief of Ngati Rangiw More

Two Māori men demonstrating a position in the traditional Māori martial art, using taiaha (fighting weapon), New Zealand, 19th century