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OUR TŪPUNA LEGACY
Tāmati Pirimona Marino Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Rārua, Te Āti Awa, Kaitangata
Gottfried Lindauer: Tāmati Pirimona Marino [oil on canvas] Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. gift of Mr H E Partridge, 1915 (1915/2/37) http://www.lindaueronline.co.nz/maori-portraits/ tamati-pirimona-marino.
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small urupā on the side of a hill near the settlement of Aorere (Collingwood) is the final resting place of rangatira
Tāmati Pirimona Marino, chief for an extended whānau community at Aorere. Leader, humanitarian, trader, entrepreneur, mariner and politician, Tāmati Pirimona Marino lived in a time of great change in Aotearoa. He had considerable mana and influence and was held in high regard in both te ao Māori and in early colonial society. Tāmati Pirimona Marino was important to us in terms of his leadership, and in many ways he is a role model for us. Along with his father and two brothers, Tāmati Marino is named as one of the orginal owners of the Nelson Tenths’.
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Lindauer exhibition promotion, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
