Te Horeta

Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Whanaunga iwi.

[1] In November 1769, as a young boy, he witnessed HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, arrive in Mercury Bay.

[2][1] In 1840 Te Horeta was a signatory of the Treaty of Waitangi.

[1] Tukumana Te Taniwha was his grandson.

[3] This biographical article relating to a Māori person is a stub.

Portrait of Te Horetā, by Gottfried Lindauer , almost certainly painted from a photograph many years after the subject's death. [ 4 ]