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Kōrero: Te ngahere – forest lore

Pua kiekie

Kiekie flower

Tipu ai tēnei kiekie ki te moutere o Breaksea ki Te Rua-o-te-moko (Fiordland). Ka rarangatia ngā rau, ka kainga ngā hua me te emiemi i te pua.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Department of Conservation

Reference: 10049474

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rāwiri Taonui, Te ngahere – forest lore – Plants for weaving, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14114/pua-kiekie (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rāwiri Taonui, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.

Comments

Rob Tìgeir
16 October 2017
Māori are not only in the past. This page would be more illuminating if it said that Māori weave kiekie. Is this the standard way current Māori practices are referred to by Te Ara? If so it needs to change.