{"id":270329,"date":"2026-02-06T07:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270329\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:31:10","slug":"waitangi-2026-in-photos-pukana-powhiri-and-protest-mark-186th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270329\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitangi 2026 in photos: Pukana, p\u014dwhiri and protest mark 186th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/57fdf3d7-f1e5-4d08-8eeb-49efcf08f139.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Gabel\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/julia-gabel\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Gabel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>6 Feb, 2026 03:00 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The p\u014dwhiri for parliamentarians at the Upper Treaty Grounds during the Waitangi 2026 commemorations was a spectacle. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Each year, tens of thousands of people descend onto the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in the Far North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">From the first p\u014dwhiri to the closing waka procession, Herald photographers Jason Dorday and Alyse Wright were there to capture the week marking the 186th signing of the country\u2019s foundational document. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The p\u014dwhiri for parliamentarians at the Upper Treaty Grounds during the Waitangi 2026 commemorations. Photo \/ Jason Dorday\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The p\u014dwhiri for parliamentarians at the Upper Treaty Grounds during the Waitangi 2026 commemorations. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<img  alt=\"A challenge on the Waitangi bridge during 2026 commemorations. Photo \/ Jason Dorday\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A challenge on the Waitangi bridge during 2026 commemorations. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Gabel Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 6 Feb, 2026 03:00 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153184,2246,95,4624,28247,24392,51249,42,78,32573,43,529,56820,384,254,25394,153183,123637,15454,2742,40,38,41,39,38961,27704,379],"class_list":["post-270329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-186th","tag-2246","tag-and","tag-anniversary","tag-descend","tag-each","tag-grounds","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-mark","tag-news","tag-north","tag-onto","tag-people","tag-photos","tag-protest","tag-pukana","tag-pwhiri","tag-tens","tag-thousands","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-treaty","tag-waitangi","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}