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Kōrero: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth

Whakapapa kūmara

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He whakapapa tēnei mai i a Rongo-Māui me Pani-tinaku ā heke iho ko te kūmara. Ko te whakapapa te taura here o te ao Māori – i te tangata, i ngā atua me te taiao. Areare mai ki tētahi wāhanga o te oriori a Enoka Te Pakaru i a ‘Pō Pō’ e pā ana ki te kūmara. 

He kōnae nō Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero. He takahi manatārua te whakamahi anō i te kōnae nei. Ki te tono mō te kōnae whakapā atu ki Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero  (New Zealand Polynesian Festival 1986 – Waihirere, Gisborne/Reference number MPT 1390).

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Hope Tupara, Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth – Birth in Māori tradition, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/speech/27620/whakapapa-kumara (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hope Tupara, i tāngia i te 23 March 2011, updated 1 June 2017.