No-one could’ve realised the implications of presenting the elegant black & white feather to the Duke of York during his visit to Aotearoa in 1901 not the high ranking maori woman, who took the quill from her own hair & placed it in the Dukes hat band. If she had she would’ve chosen differently. The Duke who wore it inadvertently set up a chain of events that sealed the extinction of our most majestic forest bird, the Huia.