Some years ago I bought a copy of Peter Buck's printed Cawthron Lecture - The Coming of the Maori.Tucked inside it was a printed postcard of two Maori men. It was not the usual subject for a Maori postcard - usually they were tourist scenes. The two intrigued me - the sitting one clearly of higher status and unusually well dressed for the period. It seemed an unlikely subject. The card was tucked onto a bookcase shelf and has sat their occasionally attracting my attention ever since, until I recently watched a Shipwreck TV programme about the 1863 wreck of the Delaware near Nelson. It was the well known story of the rescue of most of the crew by the "New Zealand Grace Darling" Huria Matenga. You can read her story and more on the wreck here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/delaware.htm http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/matenga-huria-te-amoho-wikitoria http://www.theprow.org.nz/maori/maori-rescues/ http://www.teara.gov