Kōrero: Te Arawa

Ngā tohu whenua o Tarawera

Ngā tohu whenua o Tarawera

I te pahūtanga o Tarawera i ngā haora moata o te 10 o Hune 1886, e moe ana ngā tūruhi ki ngā hōtera o Te Wairoa, ā okioki ana ngā iwi i roto i o rātou whare. Tōpū, neke atu i te 100 ngā tāngata i mate i te hūnga o Tarawera. Koinei te hūnga nui ake atu i te taenga mai o te Pākehā. E kitea tonu ana i te whakaahua nei te kino o te hūnga i runga i te mata o te whenua, e 17 tau i muri o te pahūtanga. Kei runga e whakaatuhia ana te maunga o Tarawera, ko Rotomahana me ngā piere o Waimangu. Nō ngā tau tōmua o te tau rua mano, kua tipu anō mai ngā uru rākau.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PAColl-5584-33
Photograph by Henry Winkelmann

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Paul Tapsell, 'Te Arawa - Te hū o Tarawera', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4183/nga-tohu-whenua-o-tarawera (accessed 24 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Paul Tapsell, i tāngia i te 8 Feb 2005, updated 1 Mar 2017