Actor, film-maker and campaigner Patricia Rongomaitara "Ramai" Hayward - who had ties to the Whanganui River - died this month and tributes have flowed from the Maori Party and from film and television circles.
Hayward was 98 years old and had outlived her film-maker husband Rudall Hayward. Together they were Hayward Films and made documentaries and features in four countries, including communist China in the 1950s.
But before that Ramai Te Miha (she was also known as Patricia Miller) was New Zealand's first professional Maori photographer, with a studio and employees in Auckland.
She was born in Martinborough in 1916, and spent much of her early life with her Maori grandmother in the Wairarapa. She met Rudall Hayward when she acted the part of the beautiful Ariana in his 1940 film Rewi's Last Stand.
They married and she learned to use camera and sound equipment - the only woman in England or New Zealand who could do so at the time. The two made many films.