OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.
DEATH OF AN ARAWA CHIEF. Te Keeps Rangipuawha. the last of the more important Aniwa chiefs, and a member of the Tuhourangi tribe, died recently at Whakarewarewa. The natives signalled the death of the chieftain by holding the usual lengthy tangi, or ‘■crying ceremony,” over the body. He had been in bad health for some time, and his death was not unexpected. Keeps was a fine stamp of the Maori race, and at the time of the Tarawera eruption lived at Wairoa. The deceased chief took a prominent part in the native celebrations at "Rotorua on the occasion of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and was one of those who received a Royal medal, Up to the time of his death Keepa was in receipt of a military pension of £l2 per quarter.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 15 July 1905, Page 21
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139OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 15 July 1905, Page 21
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