There’s a phrase in Te Ao Māori – “kanohi kitea” – which means being a ‘seen face’. It embodies that sense of duty Māori feel to go to that hui or to that tangihanga. In essence, to show their faces.
Rarely has it been activated on the scale, and in the way, it has this year.
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