Skip to main content

Kōrero: Tangihanga – death customs

'Tangi at Ranana'

Image
'Tangi at Ranana'

E tangi ana a Tōpia Tūroa o Whanganui me tētahi kuia i te hunga kua whetūrangitia ki Rānana kei te taha o te awa o Whanganui. Ko te ingoa o te whakaahua nei ko 'Tangi at Ranana', ara e tohu kē ana ki te tangi mō ngā mate, ā, kaua kē ki te tikanga o te tangi. Heoi e tohu ana te heke o te roimata me te hupe ki tērā whakataukī a te Māori ara, 'Nā te hupe me te roimata ka ea a Mate'.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: E-041-049

by James Coutts Crawford

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rawinia Higgins, Tangihanga – death customs – Traditional preparations for tangihanga, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/28785/tangi-at-ranana (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rawinia Higgins, i tāngia i te 3 May 2011.