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Kōrero: Māori manners and social behaviour – Ngā mahi tika

Te tanu i te whenua, tau 1987

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Burying the whenua, 1987

Ko ‘whenua’ te kupu mō te papa whenua me te ewe o te tamaiti. E ai rā ki ngā tikanga tūturu, ka tanua te whenua o te tamaiti ki tōna tūrangawaewae. He whakaahua tēnei nā Robyn Kahukiwa i tā, e kīa nei ko ‘Te whenua, te whenua, engari kāore he tūrangawaewae’. E whai pānga ana tēnei mahinga toi ki te mahi a ngā hōhipera a te Pākehā, arā, ki te tahu i ngā whenua.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki

Reference: 1988/32

by Robyn Kahukiwa

Permission of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 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

Mark Derby, Māori manners and social behaviour – Ngā mahi tika – Tangi, birth and modern-day custom, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/41188/burying-the-whenua-1987 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 21 March 2013.