Tamatea Arikinui, a kapa haka from Ngāti Kahungunu, is seen at Hastings Sportsground during the 2014 Kahungunu regional competitions. The women (top) wear piupiu and tāniko bodices. The leader, to the left, is also wearing a korowai. The men (bottom) wear equivalent clothing, with tāniko tātua above piupiu. Tamatea Arikinui’s clothes reflect their iwi traditions – the tāniko patterns include a wave design representing the waters across which the Tākitimu waka travelled to New Zealand, and the whales on the bodices depict four female sperm whales which accompanied the canoe on the migration.
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