An inquest into the forestry death of 19-year-old Eramiha Pairama has begun at Te Uru Taumatua in Taneatua.
The forestry worker was killed in January 2013 when he was struck by a tree while working near Whakatane.
Coroner Wallace Bain is seated in front of a priceless Colin McCahon painting that stretches over a wall in Tuhoe's "living building".
Mr Pairama's mother Selina Eruera is supported by whanau and the Council of Trade Union's Helen Kelly. Also in attendance are Maryanne Butler-Findlay who lost her husband Charles Findlay in a forestry accident in July, 2013, and Donna McMurtrie, whose husband David McMurtrie was killed near Opotiki in June 2012.