Descendants honour kuia painted in the 1970s at Auckland exhibition - a podcast by RNZ

Artist Harry Sangl immigrated to New Zealand in 1971 and soon set off in his caravan to the rural Tuhoe Valley to ask kuia – elderly Māori women – if he could paint their portraits. Sangl was met with suspicion but after over four years of building up their trust, 34 kuia agreed. An exhibtion of these portraits is currently running in Auckland.

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