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half the group decided to stay in England, and four of the women married Englishmen. The remainder of the group returned to New Zealand in late 1911. Papakura was blamed both for the financial issues and for the group members who had not come back. She stayed in New Zealand only briefly and she then returned to England, where she continued a relationship with Richard Staples-Browne. She had first met him in 1907 when he had toured New Zealand. The couple were married in 1912 and they lived in Staples-Browne's country home in Oxfordshire, Oddington Grange.
173: 196:. She wrote a thesis on Māori culture, which she took to the elders at Whakarewarewa for approval before submitting it. Papakura died suddenly three weeks before her thesis examination, on 16 April 1930 aged 56, from a ruptured aortic artery. She was buried, according to her wishes, in Oddington cemetery; her family in Whakarewarewa erected a memorial to her in the village the following year. 138:. With her wages she was able to support her infant son, William. She was once asked by an overseas visitor if she had a Māori surname, and, glancing around for inspiration. she saw the geyser Papakura nearby and told the visitor her name was Maggie Papakura. From then on, she worked under the name and members of her family also adopted the new surname. 208:
It describes and analyses the customs of Te Arawa from a woman's perspective, including aspects of daily life such as child-rearing and family relationships, which had previously been ignored by male writers. Papakura also corrected the erroneous assumptions of Pakeha ethnologists in her work, which
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They group performed at Crystal Palace, the Palace Theatre and White City and were accompanied by an exhibition of Māori artefacts, including a meeting house and storehouse. The tour was highly successful in terms of positive publicity and attention, however it was beset by financial problems. About
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Papakura was also a skilled entertainer and in the early 1900s established the Rotorua Maori Choir, which she took to Sydney on tour in 1910. The tour was so successful that a group of Sydney businesspeople asked her to organise a concert party to go to London for the
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In 1891, aged 18, she married Francis (Frank) Dennan, a surveyor, and had a son, William Francis (Te Aonui) Dennan, later that year. The family lived briefly in the Wairarapa, but Dennan left to work in
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celebrations, and in April 1911 Papakura's group left for England. The group consisted of around 40 members of Papakura's family, including her sister Bella, brother Dick and Tūhourangi leader
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Papakura was raised until the age of 10 by her mother's aunt and uncle, Mārara Marotaua and Maihi Te Kakau Parāoa, at the small rural village of Parekārangi, where she spoke
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After secondary school, Papakura moved to live in the thermal springs area of Whakarewarewa in Rotorua and began to learn to be a guide under Guide
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and learnt her maternal family's history, culture and traditions. When she was 10, her father took over her education and she attended schools in
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Papakura's thesis was published posthumously in 1938 by her friend and fellow Oxford anthropology student Thomas Kenneth Penniman as
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soldiers in the chapel at Oddington. In 1924, Papakura moved into Oxford and enrolled to study a Bachelor of Science degree in
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was the first extensive published ethnographic work by a Māori scholar. The book was re-printed in 1986 by New Women's Press.
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Papakura's house, named after her ancestor Tuhoromatakaka and built by master carver
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In 1901, Papakura was the guide for the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later
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In 2017, Papakura was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "
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In 1993 works owned and created by Papakura formed part of the exhibition
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A collection of Maori artefacts owned by Mākereti were donated to the
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In 2007, a biography of Papakura was published by Paul Diamond,
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Index


Pākehā
Māori
Te Arawa
Tūhourangi
iwi
Matatā
Bay of Plenty
New Zealand
Tama-te-kapua
Ngātoroirangi
Māori
Rotorua
Tauranga
Hukarere Native School for Girls
Napier
Taupō
Whakarewarewa
Sophia Hinerangi
King George V
Queen Mary
Festival of Empire
Mita Taupopoki

World War I
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
anthropology
Society of Oxford Home-Students
Te Hikapuhi Wiremu Poihipi
Rangimahora Reihana-Mete

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