New Zealand NZ Maori Guide Maggie Papakura Signed name and from your Good friend
New Zealand NZ Maori Guide Maggie Papakura Signed name and from your Good friend
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New Zealand NZ Maori Guide Maggie Papakura Signed name and from your Good friend
Unused postal postcard Parkerson Guide Maggie[No7] at home Whakarewarewa not dated divided back.
Guide Maggie has signed her name in ink fully Maggie Papakura and them along the bottom of the card [Aroha nz to hoa] I think this means from your good friend.
the card top right corner has small crease and the bottom edge has an indentation.
Margaret Pattison Thom, who was later widely known as Mākereti (or Maggie) Papakura, was born at Matatā, in the Bay of Plenty, on 20 October 1873. Her father was an Englishman, William Arthur Thom, a storekeeper who later worked in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Rotorua, and then at Wairoa. Her mother was Pia Ngarotū Te Rihi, a high-born Te Arawa woman of Ngāti Wāhiao hapū of Tūhourangi, who was descended from Te Arawa chiefs Tamatekapua, Ngātoroirangi, Hei and Ika. Soon after her birth, Mākereti was taken to the rural community of Parekārangi to be raised by her mother’s paternal aunt and uncle, Mārara Marotaua and Maihi Te Kakau Parāoa. It was from them that Mākereti learnt the genealogies, history and customs of her tribe.
Mākereti did not speak English until her father took over her education when she was 10 years old. Periods spent at schools in Rotorua and Tauranga, tuition from an English governess, and three years at Hukarere Native Girls’ School, Napier, gave her the language skills and confidence to move with aplomb between the Pākehā and Māori worlds. On leaving school, Mākereti went to live at Whakarewarewa, the ancestral home of her people.
