Gunna Chief: First Maori to Sell Land to Missionaries

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John William Lewin. A Hoodee of Gunna Chief of Rangee Hoo Hand…
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John William Lewin. A Hoodee of Gunna Chief of Rangee Hoo Hand tinted lithograph, London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1824. Gunna Chief was the first Maori to sell land to the missionaries in the Bay of Islands in 1815

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