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Tikini between 1904 and 1919

Ria Tikini or Ria Te Kini (c. 1810 – 19 July 1919), also known as Mrs Chicken, was a New Zealand businesswoman, cultural informant and midwife. She is credited as one of the midwives who paved the way for the creation of the Plunket Society. As a Kāi Tahu and Kāti Mamoe woman, she was an informant for ethnographer William Anderson Taylor's work on Kāi Tahu history and early European contact with Māori.

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Ria Tikini

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Ria Tikini or Ria Te Kini (c. 1810 – 19 July 1919), also known as Mrs Chicken, was a New Zealand businesswoman, cultural informant and midwife. She is...

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Plunket Society

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respected Kāi Tahu and Kāti Huirapa midwives and healers, Mere Harper and Ria Tikini, delivered Thomas Rangiwahia Mutu Ellison. His older brother had died...

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Mere Harper

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district as a midwife, tōhuka and healer. She worked for half a century with Ria Tikini, thirty years older than her, to help with health issues in their community...

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