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… and Waka Kereama – under the instruction of Te Arawa tohunga whakairo (carving experts). Going too far Building … carving school closed in 1938, it had produced dozens of tohunga whakairo, hundreds of female tukutuku workers and at …
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Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori
… Ringatū services are held at marae. Ministers are known as tohunga. In 1915 Ringatū tohunga were gazetted as ministers under the Marriage Act. …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… in this world. After being challenged by a rival Waikato tohunga to demonstrate the extent of her powers, she is said … beliefs, practised the ancient skills of a healing tohunga. In so doing she not only acted as a counterpoint to tohunga makutu, but reinforced the Māori world view of life …
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… such as massage and manipulation, and spiritual healing. Tohunga ahurewa (priestly experts) were often responsible … degree, though they were probably not a large part of the tohunga’s therapeutic repertoire. Spiritual aspects Illness …
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Part of story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants
… from tribe to tribe, or from region to region, and from tohunga to tohunga. Genealogies most often begin from Te Pō …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… and Ngāti Porou. During her adolescent years some tohunga tā moko (tattooing experts) from Te Arawa arrived on … the East Coast to tattoo chosen girls with moko kauae. The tohunga refused to operate on Mihi Kōtukutuku due to the …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… Victoria Falls, were a noted source of inspiration to Māori tohunga (priests). T. W. Rātana, founder of the Rātana …
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Part of story: Waterfalls
… Tāneatua Tāneatua was a tohunga on the Mataatua canoe, and the half-brother of …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… people took control of the area in the 1820s, their senior tohunga, Nohorua, built a palisaded village near Paremata … is also popular. Hau’s revenge Hau, an early Māori tohunga (priest), pursued his wife Wairaka, and her lover, …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… Te Waaka Perohuka was a tohunga and carver of the Rongowhakaata people of Tūranga … presented the canoe to Perohuka. He and six other principal tohunga, Tīmoti Rangitoto-hihira, Wiremu Te Kikiwi, …
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… his fish The following story was written by the Ngāti Porou tohunga, Mohi Ruatapu. It begins with Māui fetching the …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… Rakataura and Kahurere Rakataura, the tohunga (priest) of the Tainui canoe, appears in several …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… only what was needed laying mauri stones in gardens. A tohunga would say a karakia over the stone, which was …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… in the late 19th century. It was here in the 1860s that the tohunga and historian Te Mātorohanga passed on his knowledge … These stories, and the teachings of another Wairarapa tohunga, Nēpia Pōhūhū, were written down by Hoani Te …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Ritual Kurī were sacrificed on ceremonial occasions. Tohunga (priests) would sacrifice a dog to appease … war, or other gods. Dogs were also used as a tapu food for tohunga (priests). In the 1830s at Mangakāhia, when a …
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Part of story: Kurī – Polynesian dogs
… (the swollen stomach of Kahu), given by Tainui tohunga Rakataura in honour of his pregnant wife. Tainui … mountain’. It is said that the name was given by Tainui tohunga Rakataura, who first saw the mountain rising above …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… intact only the dwelling of the renowned and greatly feared tohunga Tahu. Nothing is known of Tahu's birth and … gesture Matiu Tahu publicly renounced his powers as tohunga by placing on his head a vessel in which food had …
Type: Biography
… and it was a tapu place under the guidance of a tohunga. The tohunga cut the umbilical cord (pito) which, along with the … the tohi rite. It was conducted at a sacred stream by the tohunga or priest. The tohi ceremony dedicated children to …
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Part of story: Ngā tamariki
… enmity of Tinirau, ancestor of all the fish, towards the tohunga Kae, who killed Tinirau’s favourite whale. Types of …
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Part of story: Tangaroa – the sea
… homeland of Māori) by Tamatea Arikinui, high chief and tohunga, and carried a number of tohunga. After its arrival in Aotearoa (New Zealand) it made …
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Part of story: East Coast region