Taraia Ngakuti te Tumuhuia
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A famous cannibal warrior: The Chief Taraia Ngakuti, head of the Ngati-Tamatera tribe, Ohinemuri, Upper Thames. Died 1871 Fig. 133.—Taraia: (a chief who cooked two native Christians in 1842), fully tattooed, fine specimen Fig. 24.—Type of Maori. Taraia, see p.143 Taraia or Nga-kuti. — (Last Cannibal)

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