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  • Tony Gentile/Reuters ART DISPLAY: New Zealand artists Francis Upritchard, second left, and Judy Millar, second right, posed with members of the Maori group "Waka Huia" for the opening of the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Wednesday.

    Today's Photos: June 3 2009

  • Waka Huia investigates how Mâori living in Australia retain their language and culture.

    ta tvnz business headlines auto group 2009

  • Waka Huia investigates how Mâori living in Australia retain their language and culture.

    ta tvnz business headlines auto group 2009

  • Waka Huia investigates how Mâori living in Australia retain their language and culture.

    ta tvnz business headlines auto group 2009

  • Waka Huia investigates how Mâori living in Australia retain their language and culture.

    ta tvnz business headlines auto group 2009

  • Sharvae Te Huia-Goodman, age 5, hula hoops on a Harley-Davidson at Wachner Place in Invercargill, New Zealand.

    Hooping.org | Blog | Harley Hooper 2009

  • Consider the fate of Passenger Pigeons and Bison in the US, the fate of Moa and Huia in New Zealand, the Dodo in Madagascar.

    Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • I was particularly moved by the pair of Huia, bundled up, lying shoulder to shoulder with a tag wrapped around their legs.

    Stuffed Birds tellurian 2007

  • Malie o hoohuoi laua i kou pae ole, ninau iho i ke kumu o kou pae ole ana, alaila nai aku oe, no ka maa ole i ka hee ana o ka nalu po kopoko, a i ninau mai i kau nalu loihi e hee ai, alaila hai aku oe o Huia.

    The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

  • (Stringops), the Huia, a bird like a crow in appearance, whose male has a short straight beak, whilst the female has a long one, greatly curved; the detested Kea, the parrot which kills the sheep, introduced by the colonists, by digging out with its beak from their backs the fat round the kidneys; also very peculiar owls and wrens, and the fine singing bell-birds.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

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