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… and about twenty-four stone. He was a pupil of the renowned tohunga Werewere Te Rangipūmamao of Tapuaeharuru. When, in … a tapu-raising ceremony on a carved house. The Ngāti Awa tohunga, Hāmiora Tumutara Pio , also took part in the …
Type: Biography
… this geothermal region trace its origin to Ngātoroirangi, a tohunga (priest) on Te Arawa canoe. He was freezing on Mt …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… rock When the Tākitimu landed on Māhia Peninsula the tohunga (priest) Ruawharo decided to settle there. He built …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… usually involved toa (warriors), rangatira (leaders) and a tohunga (ritual expert). A large war party would often …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… Te Rangiuia was a Ngāti Porou leader and tohunga at Ūawa (Tolaga Bay). His date of birth is not …
Type: Biography
… causing the boy's death. He was challenged to a test by a tohunga from Ōhinemutu, who carried out ceremonies to prove … On the third day Mita, fitter than ever, ridiculed the tohunga and banished him from the marae. In old age Mita …
Type: Biography
… name Mananui, 'great mana', became his when his uncle, the tohunga Taipāhau, transferred his sacred wisdom and magical … guardian and guide of Mananui, and all the wisdom of the tohunga passed to him. The reputation of Mananui as a …
Type: Biography
… and Para Matchitt from the contemporary movement, and the tohunga whakairo (master carver) Pakariki Harrison. Pakariki …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… mana, of supreme confidence in the Māori world-view, by a tohunga immersed in the customs and lore of his people. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… Rauru-Nui-a-Toi. Telling the stories A Ngāti Kahungunu tohunga, Moihi Te Mātorohanga, agreed in 1865 to tell the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… under the supervision of the Rongowhakaata tribal tohunga whakairo (master carver) Raharuhi Rukupō. European …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori
… Toroa was the captain and his half-brother Tāneatua was the tohunga. Among the crew were Toroa’s younger brother Puhi , …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… a whale. In another story, Te Tahi-o-te-rangi, a well-known tohunga (priest) from Whakatāne, was abandoned by his people …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taniwha
… was instructed in the sacred elements of Māori life under tohunga Hāre Whiro. The influence of northern and national … a warrior for battle. It was carried out by an elderly tohunga (a direct descendant of Te Kēmara, the great Ngāpuhi tohunga, sage and seer) at a gathering of chiefs and elders …
Type: Biography
… become a medical doctor, let alone supplant traditional tohunga with western medical practices. However, this view … cases of makutu by advising the victims to attend local tohunga he knew could cure them. During his career he became …
Type: Biography
… the peoples of the Waitākere and Hūnua ranges. The Hūnua tohunga (priest) invoked the sun to rise early and blind the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Auckland places
… was an adherent of the Pai Mārire faith. She was also a tohunga of note, one of the few women permitted to speak on …
Type: Biography
… the people, and turn them from superstitions and fear of tohunga and the old atua (gods). Healing Rātana changed his …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rātana Church – Te Haahi Rātana
… One type of karakia, a tūā, was a spell. Who used karakia? Tohunga (priests) were the most appropriate people to use …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… a name now applied to the entire lake. Ngātoroirangi, the tohunga (priest) of Te Arawa , reached the mountains south …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region