{"product_id":"c1870-carte-de-visite-of-the-maori-leader-wikitoria-taitoko-kepa-daughter-of-te-keepa-te-rangihiwinui-major-kemp","title":"c1870 Carte de Visite of the Māori leader Wikitoria Taitoko Kepa, Daughter of Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui (Major Kemp)","description":"\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eCarte de Visite of the Māori leader Wikitoria \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTaitoko\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eKepa, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eDaughter of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e Keepa \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eRangihiwinui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e (Major Kemp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e-New Zealand, c. 1870.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e-An uncommon early photographic CDV of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eWikitoria \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTaitoko\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e Kepa (c.1850–1912), also known as Wiki Kemp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e, in Western dress\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eWiki was the daughter and only surviving child of the Māori \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003erangatira\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e and military commander \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e Keepa \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eRangihiwinui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e (Major Kemp)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e. Following his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003edeath in 1898, Wiki became leader, and a prominent figure in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003ePūtiki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e and Whanganui. She maintained connections across both Māori and Pākehā society and was active in the Māori temperance movement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHer stature led to the commission by the sculptor Nelson Illingworth of portrait bust in 1908. Her death at Pūtiki in 1912 was followed by a substantial tangi (funeral) attended by Māori leaders from across the country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eHer family occupied an important position in nineteenth-century New Zealand history. Her grandmother \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eRere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eō\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e-maki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e was among the Māori women who signed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTiriti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e o Waitangi in 1840\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e, while her father \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; font-style: normal;\"\u003e Keepa became one of the most celebrated Māori commanders of the New Zealand Wars. 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