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Kōrero: Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori

Te Paki-o-Matariki

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Elaborately carved wooden doorway with a mat inscribed with the word Mahinarangi on the ground in front of the door.

I komohia ngā whetū o Matariki ki te hīra o te Kīngitanga i te taha o ētahi tohu Karaitiana. E whakaatuhia ana i konei te hīra i te kūaha o te wharenui o Māhinārangi, i hangaia i ngā tau o te 1920 ki te marae o Tūrangawaewae i Ngāruawāhia. I whakamahia anō te hīra ki te ingoa upoko o te niupepa a te Kīngitanga i kīia ko Te Paki-o-Matariki, i tāia tuatahitia i te tau 1892.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, John Houston Collection

Reference: 1/2-025440-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.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Meredith, Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori – Cycles of life and death, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47457/te-paki-o-matariki (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Meredith, i tāngia i te 25 June 2021, reviewed and revised 30 April 2026 me te āwhina o Che Wilson.