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… before breathing life into her. In another, it is a man, Tiki-āhua, who is formed from soil by Tāne. Canoe traditions … areas. Kupe When the great navigator Kupe returned to Hawaiki, he is said to have commented on New Zealand’s fertile … e Turi’ (the soil which Turi smelled). He went to Taranaki, as Kupe told him the land was one-kakara (sweet-scented …
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Part of story: Oneone – soils
… of the Colonial Museum, began to instruct carvers in the kind of work they wanted to buy. In 1905 Hamilton said, … to the robust modelling and deep relief of the Te Hau-ki-Tūranga style. The pou (carved posts) and heke (rafters) …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… Tuputupuwhenua, Te Tini-o-Kui, Te Uri-o-Nuku (from the Ngātokimatawhaorua canoe), Ngāti Ruanui (of the Māmari canoe), … Ngāti Kahu and Ngāi Tamatea (from the Tinana , Māmaru and Tākitimu canoes), Ngāti Miru (of the Mataatua canoe), and other tribes including Ngāti Rangi and Ngāti Ririki. Manumanu II (the son of Manumanu I), Rongotaumua (the …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… who migrated from Ngāruawāhia on the Waikato River to Hauraki (Coromandel). There, he married Tukutuku, a descendant of … and Kapetaua of Ngāti Pāoa, conquered much of Tāmaki (Auckland) in separate battles. Ngāti Pāoa fought a … of campaigns against Ngāti Whātua and Te Wai-o-Hua of Tāmaki at Mahurangi and the Whau and Tāmaki rivers. Until …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… of the Tūwharetoa tribe, where it was stated: ‘Mo nga tamariki whangai: Kaua e whaimana te tamaiti whangai pakeha, ahakoa i rehitatia ki nga rawa a te matua whangai Maori’ 1 (regarding whāngai … bloodline or extended family – could also exist between non-kin. Whāngai usually started at birth, but sometimes …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… both locally and internationally include: Pulp non-fiction Kiwi director Florian Habicht built a reputation for making endearing films about likeable eccentrics. Jarvis … bandit (2007), a revealing profile of an urban Māori manmaking a living washing car windows, which won Best …
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Part of story: Documentary film
… closely related to several leading Hawke's Bay chiefs: Tiakitai , her grandfather, whose people occupied the Waimārama … but she moved about from pā to pā. She spent time at Waiōhiki and Matahiwi, the former being Tareha's domain, the … a share in the Waimārama block through her grandfather, Tiakitai, as well as through her father, who had died in 1868 …
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… youngest of four children. Her mother was Hera (Sarah) Ngāikiha Halbert, whose parents were Keita Kaikiri of Ngāti Kaipoho, a hapū of Rongowhakaata , and Thomas … ways of her people, caring for visitors, preparing and cooking food, weaving and being instructed in the customs and …
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… than in trees, which are absent in many of their habitats. King shags The king shag ( Leucocarbo carunculatus ) is known to Māori as … Forster and his son Georg took a specimen of this striking black-and-white bird. Breeding in colonies, they spend …
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Part of story: Shags
… Monday Anzac Day the birthday of the reigning sovereign (King’s Birthday) Matariki Labour Day the anniversary of a province, or the day … the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere. The Matariki public holiday also changes from year to year, depending …
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Part of story: Public holidays
… Pineāmine Taiapa was born at Tikitiki on the East Coast on 6 June 1901. His mother, Maraea Te … also connected to Te Whānau-a-Te Aotaihi, Te Whānau-a-Umuariki and others. Pine was the fifth of fourteen children, and …
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… Writers Early settler Jane Maria Atkinson left a valuable record of life in Taranaki through her letters. Taranaki ethnologist Stephenson Percy Smith co-founded the …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… their pupils 'with not only a better education but with thinking minds and a sense of responsibility'. Jane they … education with an emphasis on training in domestic skills to enable them to become good housekeepers, wives and … as Pākehā. Yet many of these girls came from Māori-speaking homes and were quite old when they entered the junior …
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… Māori, usually smoked in clay pipes or chewed. Terms for smoking include kai paipa and momi paipa (literally ‘eating pipe’ and ‘sucking pipe’), which refer to these uses. Other terms are kai hikareti and momi hikareti (‘eating cigarette’ and ‘sucking cigarette’). Tobacco is known as tupeka – a …
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… Looking beyond New Zealand The earliest settlers imagined the … and The envoy from mirror city ) were stories of artists making a life here. Sargeson lived, poor as a monk, in his hut … dance (2004) by the dancer Douglas Wright. Cultural stock-taking Distinctions between literary and social criticism …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… There was much hope for the new king, Te Rata , but his kingship was hindered by illness – rheumatoid arthritis and … was the study of iwi traditions and whakapapa. During his kingship, his cousin Te Puea Hērangi exerted a strong …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… Te Purewa was born at Whaitiripapa, in the valley of Rūātoki. His date of birth is unknown. When he was young he was … used. Te Purewa had links with many hapū of Tūhoe: Ngā Potiki, Ngāti Huri (Tamakaimoana), Ngāi Tamatea, Ngāti Rongo and …
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… of Te Aupōuri and Te Rarawa say that Kupe landed in Hokianga Harbour, and that on his return to Hawaiki he threw up tides to crash onto the west coast of … just his own in the sand. The enemy were fooled into thinking that only one person had left and the tribe was still …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… for an anonymous circular in Māori, Ko etahi patai ki te hunga Maori mo te hoko wenua (Some questions to the … of the great Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader Iwikau Te Heuheu Tūkino III . When this offended a rival Māori leader, Te Herekiekie , Grace was able to use the occasion to bring about a …
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… of Ōingo Lake, and he was named Kahukuranui. He was also kin to Ngāti Te Ūpokoiri. When Waikato tribes attacked Te … Bay by the time Te Momo-a-Irawaru of Ngāti Te Koherā was killed at the second battle of Te Roto-a-Tara, near Te Aute, … Te Whatu-i-apiti and Ngāti Kahungunu, and Te Wera Hauraki of Ngāpuhi. Many Heretaunga people took refuge at …
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