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Story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women

Mihi Kōtukutuku

Mihi Kōtukutuku

Mihi Kōtukutuku (later Stirling) was a high-born woman of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou descent. She is among the cohort of East Coast women who are renowned for speaking on the marae.

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Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Paul Meredith, Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women – Women of rank, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31564/mihi-kotukutuku (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Paul Meredith, published 10 May 2011, updated 1 June 2017.

Comments

Anne Dugan
06 November 2016
These women have got to be the most beautiful powerful women on the planet.... I would like to know if non-Maori women are/were ever permitted to have a Ta Moko....(I am sorry I do not know how to put a line over the "a" as it is properly done)