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… Even so, when she became ill mākutu was feared. A woman tohunga, Miriama Te Manu, released Mihi from the curse, but …
Type: Biography
… Hēnare Te Atua's knowledge was derived from two of the last tohunga of the pre-Christian whare wānanga. At Waimarama …
Type: Biography
… Whātua. Discussions were inconclusive until Te Kawau's tohunga, Tītai, went into a trance and uttered the following …
Type: Biography
… extensive knowledge, and compared him favourably to all the tohunga he knew. Pei Te Hurinui Jones acknowledged that he …
Type: Biography
… were expressed in an influential column under the pen-name ‘Tohunga’. Labour-movement papers Many newspapers were …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… about his affair with Tungaroa, daughter of Rakau, the old tohunga of Rangihoua. She had been taught by Kendall at the …
Type: Biography
… belonged to the Mormon church, he was also a pupil of the tohunga and prophet Toiroa at Nukutaurua on Māhia Peninsula, …
Type: Biography
… the movement as the price paid for the Māngai’s power over tohunga. His name became a title conferred on Rātana members …
Type: Biography
… Ōrākau Tāraia sent Rewi Maniapoto a cask of gunpowder. His tohunga had recited powerful karakia over the gunpowder to …
Type: Biography
… his father. His father, noted as a warrior and possibly a tohunga, died before 1835. His mother was killed at the pā …
Type: Biography
… maturity, he was admitted into Te Whare Wānanga mō nga Tohunga, at Taumārere, one of the ancestral villages of …
Type: Biography
… avenge the death of Hengi of Ngāti Rēhia, his sons, and the tohunga Te Haramiti, in 1830 and 1831. Although the …
Type: Biography
… rites to serve his people. His father, a farmer and Ringatū tohunga, was known for his oratory and his knowledge of …
Type: Biography
… of war. Tītokowaru may have received formal training as a tohunga, perhaps through the renowned Ngā Ruahine … can hardly be said to have won it. Later in 1869, when a tohunga ritually absolved him of the sin of Tauranga-ika, …
Type: Biography
… further publications: two booklets on insects; The Māori tohunga and his spirit world (1948); a personal memoir of …
Type: Biography
… were of formative significance. With the help of the Popoto tohunga Toenga Pou, he learned the Māori language, together …
Type: Biography
… Kauhoe became the wife of the great fighting chief and tohunga Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi , the elder brother of Te Taku. …
Type: Biography
… to protest the desecration of tapu. In 1978 Tuaiwa invited tohunga and supporters from across the country to gather at …
Type: Biography
… Ngāti Tūwharetoa allies at the battle of Te Whiti-o-Tū. The tohunga of Te Pareihe had a dream presaging the invasion of …
Type: Biography
… Patuone was the eldest son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and the elder brother of …
Type: Biography