Waipapa a Iwi marae in Mōhaka is distinguished by its historic round meeting house, Rongomaiwahine. The origins of this meeting house are unclear – one source says it was built in 1885, another claims it replicates the round house built by Māori religious leader Rua Kēnana at Maungapōhatu (which he settled in 1907). A third – J. H. Mitchell’s authoritative text Takitimu (1944) – contains a photo of the building taken in 1902, before the Maungapōhatu structure was built.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Alexander Turnbull Library, Williams Family Collection
Reference:
1/2-029587; F
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.
Tāpiritia te tākupu hou