New Zealand's indigenous people, the Maori, have appointed a new queen. At the same time, a fleet of war canoes was prepared to take her father, the late monarch Tuheitia, to a sacred mountain.
The 27-year-old Nga Wai hono i te po Paki was met with jubilation when she sat down on a high-backed throne on the North Island.
The Maori monarch lacks formal power but plays a significant cultural, and sometimes political, role as a symbol of Maori identity. The Maori people number around 900,000 and make up almost a fifth of New Zealand's population.
