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… ensuring that fish and other resources remain plentiful. Tohunga (priests and other experts) were able to harness …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… unsuccessful. Māori healers were the target of the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, which allowed the prosecution …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Medicines and remedies
… of Tinirau’s pet whale. In this story, the ill-favoured tohunga Kae visited the great chief Tinirau, and asked if …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… Their ancestry reached back to Ngātoro-i-rangi, the tohunga of Te Arawa canoe, whose powers were deemed to be … Te Iwimōkai, Eramiha's great-grandfather. Their power as tohunga was feared and their carved work eagerly sought … a member of the Ringatū church and a registered minister or tohunga. In 1925 he directed a team of carvers in decorating …
Type: Biography
… and before Rangitīaria was born her family consulted a tohunga to prevent the loss of another child. The tohunga died before the ritual process was complete and …
Type: Biography
… of 250 men with 14 canoes. Nuka Taipari was an eminent tohunga and maintained traditional practices. In 1842 he … his illness continued, Nuka became dejected and sent for a tohunga. He later returned to the Christian faith, but began …
Type: Biography
… and elder relatives were among the most respected tohunga of those times, and eventually Hikawera became … of first-fruits crops (for religious offerings), and was a tohunga capable of the highest tasks required in the church, …
Type: Biography
… was removed by one of Ohaeawai's defenders, to be used by a tohunga to divine the future course of the war. George …
Type: Biography
… Traditional Māori communities used medicines prepared by tohunga using fresh or dried plant materials. Common …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Medicines and remedies
… adze was said to be held by Ruka Broughton of Ngā Rauru, a tohunga, lecturer and Anglican priest. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… When she took ill her husband accused Te Whakareke, a tohunga from Te Teko, of makutu. He and Te Hura had … rushes. The one that squeaked as she pulled was used by the tohunga to send back the makutu to its maker. He pressed the … he was very disturbed. Still certain in his mind that the tohunga Te Whakareke had been the cause of his wife's death, …
Type: Biography
… and to perform midwifery and other activities that the tohunga of Maungapōhatu dictated. And always there were the … of flies, a condition that could only be rectified by a tohunga of some mana. The most difficult bones to exhume …
Type: Biography
… bill stuck into the ground. The Ngāti Awa historian and tohunga (priest) Hāmiora Pio suggested that these blasts …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wetland birds
… Te Mātahi o te Tau, the beginning of the Māori New Year. Tohunga kōkōrangi, astronomy experts, would watch for the …
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Part of story: Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori
… severe measles epidemic, he is said to have clashed with a tohunga over the proper method of treatment. From 1902 to …
Type: Biography
… lose his son and wife to the sea people. He consulted a tohunga, who told him that if he placed cooked food on the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taniwha
… certain people were allowed to prepare fish for visiting tohunga – both a mark of respect and also a demonstration of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mātaitai – shellfish gathering
… between Wairoa and Napier, is where Tūpai, one of the three tohunga of the Tākitimu canoe, placed the mauri of birdlife. …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… sovereignty, control tīpuna ancestors, grandparents tohunga priest; expert in traditional lore; person skilled …
Type: Basic page
… to Waikato. One party, who ignored the advice of the tohunga as to the route they should follow, was severely … by the first shot of the bombardment but was saved by the tohunga Tīmoti Te Amopō, who saw the cannon fire and pulled …
Type: Biography