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Story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants

Tūhoto Ariki

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Tūhoto Ariki

This portrait by Gottfried Lindauer is of Tūhoto Ariki, a renowned tohunga of the Tūhourangi people in Rotorua. Tūhoto was a tohunga ahurewa, a priestly expert.

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Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki

by Gottfried Lindauer

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Rhys Jones, Rongoā – medicinal use of plants – Supernatural and human illnesses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/14590/tuhoto-ariki (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rhys Jones, published 2 March 2009.