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Story: Māori housing – te noho whare

Mākōtukutuku wharepuni

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Mākōtukutuku wharepuni

Mākōtukutuku wharepuni (sleeping house) at Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand's national museum, is a reconstruction of a 16th-century design and was built by Ngāti Hinewaka. It is similar to dwellings in Polynesia and the model for subsequent wharepuni. 

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Ben Schrader, Māori housing – te noho whare – Wharepuni to European house, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40343/makotukutuku-wharepuni (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 30 November 2012.