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… Walker also produced biographies of carver Paki Harrison ( Tohunga w hakairo , 2008) and the politician Apirana Ngata ( …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… Matahinewau. Hera was the sister of Te Kere Ngātai-e-rua, a tohunga and leader of Ngāti Tū. Te Mamaku and Hera were …
Type: Biography
… Kaahu Huatare. Te Wiwini Huatare was to become a tohunga matakite of importance. Wahanui's wife was Te …
Type: Biography
… part of his campaign against traditional Māori religion and tohunga he deliberately desecrated places of ancient tapu. … campaign against him in Māori newspapers, claiming he was a tohunga similar to Rua Kēnana , Te Weretā and Hikapuhi – a … biblical faith, and that his revivalism and work against 'tohungaism' were invaluable. Nevertheless, in 1921 Rātana …
Type: Biography
… passed by the farm and he attributed many of the deaths to 'tohungaism'. This later influenced him to choose medicine as …
Type: Biography
… the problems of their people by forbidding recourse to tohunga and by condemning drunkenness, theft, adultery and …
Type: Biography
… reading. His father told young Harry stories of taniwha and tohunga he had heard from the old people in the meeting …
Type: Biography
… from Hurunga Te Rangi to Pango Ngāwene, a Te Arawa tohunga, to her father Poniwahio Pango. Ehau Puka Ānaha was …
Type: Biography
… accounts of battles. He provided details of the rituals of tohunga, and the calling and training of their tauira …
Type: Biography
… schoolchildren, and was instrumental in the passage of the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 and the Quackery Prevention Act …
Type: Biography
… Marumaru. She fed Pinepine in the manner of the sacred tohunga of an earlier period, with food offered to her mouth …
Type: Biography
… Tūwharetoa , part of a line that traced its ancestry to the tohunga of Te Arawa canoe, Ngātoroirangi. His grandfather, …
Type: Biography
… was communicated to her by the touch of a Ngāti Whatua tohunga, Te Whetū, angered because he was considered …
Type: Biography
… (CMS) missionary, stated that Tuai’s father had been a tohunga who died when Tuai was young. Tuai’s uncle was the …
Type: Biography
… Ngāti Porou relations. He learned Māori lore from respected tohunga, including Pineāmine Tamahori. At the whare wānanga …
Type: Biography
… than Rātana announced to the press that all practising tohunga had been invited to Rātana's Christmas Day hui, when …
Type: Biography
… withdraw to Nukutaurua, on the Māhia peninsula, because his tohunga, Ngoi, had predicted massive invasions of Hawke's …
Type: Biography
… inherited from Rāpata Wahawaha and the Tūhoe leader and tohunga Te Pairi Tūterangi , whose pupil he had been. Te …
Type: Biography
… soon afterwards. On 31 August 1965 they married, living at Tohunga Crescent in Parnell. Curnow’s relationship with Jeny … and the writer C. K. Stead (who lived opposite him in Tohunga Crescent). Curnow greatly respected Stead's comments …
Type: Biography
… children, all of whom died in infancy. They consulted a tohunga, who advised that their next child should not be …
Type: Biography