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Story: Ngāti Porou

Tukutuku panel depicting Toi

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Tukutuku panel depicting Toi

Porourangi’s descendants expanded their influence through conflicts with neighbouring tribes, most of whom were also descended from Toi. This woven tukutuku image of Toi (second from left) is in the Whitirēia meeting house at Whāngārā, near Gisborne.

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Tamati Muturangi Reedy, Ngāti Porou – Toi descendants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/4375/tukutuku-panel-depicting-toi (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tamati Muturangi Reedy, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.