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Kōrero: Tangihanga – death customs

He tangi ki Mataatua, 1907

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Tangi, Mataatua, 1907

Ko te tangi tēnei o Te Whenuanui ki Mataatua i te tau 1907. E tīraha mai ana tana tinana ki roto tēneti, a, e muia ana e tana iwi. He rangatira whai mana, he kaiwhakairo a Te Whenuanui nō Ngāi Tūhoe. I ngā wā o ngā pakanga whenua o Aotearoa, ka riri ia ki te kawanatanga. I tu ia ki te pakanga i Ōrākau i te taha o Rewi Maniapoto. Nā te tapu o te mate, ka takoto mai te tūpāpaku ki roto i te whare tīhokahoka noa.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Blue Album

Reference: PA1-o-042-42-1

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

Rawinia Higgins, Tangihanga – death customs – Traditional preparations for tangihanga, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28784/he-tangi-ki-mataatua-1907 (accessed 4 June 2026).

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