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Kōrero: Ngā manu – birds

Hine-nui-te-pō me Māui

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Hine-nui-te-pō and Māui

Ko Hine-nui-te-pō (runga) rāua ko Māui. Ka whakamātau a Māui ki te whakamate i a Hine-nui-te-pō mā te kuhu i ōna kūhā kia tae ki tōna waha. Ka kata te moho pererū ka oho a Hine-nui-te-pō, ka kūtia a Māui i ōna kūhā, mate rawa. Arā tērā kōrero, nā te kata o te tīwaiwaka kē a Hine-nui-te-pō i whakaoho.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-6585-10

by Charles A. Lloyd

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.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kelly Keane, Ngā manu – birds – Birds associated with death, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12154/hine-nui-te-po-me-maui (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kelly Keane, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 17 February 2015.