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Muriwai, the sister of Toroa, the captain of the Mataatua canoe, established a rāhui that prohibited the taking of shellfish where her twin sons drowned.
The ban ran from Ngā Kurī a Whārei (Bowentown) to Tihirau (Whangaparāoa). Many of the tribes of this region have an association to the Mataatua, as well to many other ancestral waka that landed here.
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