Kinohaku was a Maori woman of

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in the

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tribal confederation from the

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. She is the eponymous ancestor of the Ngāti Kinohaku hapu (sub-tribe) of

and probably lived in the seventeenth century.

Life

Kinohaku was a daughter of Rereahu, through whom she was a direct male-line descendant of

Hoturoa According to Māori tradition, Hoturoa was the leader of the ''Tainui'' canoe, during the migration of the Māori people to New Zealand, around 1400. He is considered the founding ancestor of the Tainui confederation of tribes ( iwi), who now in ...

, the captain of the

canoe, and his second wife Hine-au-pounamu, also a descendant of Hoturoa. She had one older half-brother, Te Ihinga-a-rangi, six full brothers, Maniapoto, Matakore, Tū-whakahekeao, Tūrongo-tapu-ārau, Te Io-wānanga / Te Āio-wānanga, and Kahu-ariari, and one full sister Te Rongorito. Kinohaku and her full siblings were raised in region around Kāwhia. Subsequently, they settled along the

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and the Manga-o-kewa Stream, with a central hub at

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Marriage to Tū-irirangi

Kinohaku married Tū-irirangi, who was her cousin on both sides, since his father, Huiao son of Whāita, was a great-grandson of Rereahu’s brother Kurawari, while his mother Māpau-inuhia was the sister of Hine-au-Pounamu’s father Tū-a-tangiroa. The amount of food gathered by Tū-irirangi and his tribe for the wedding feast was enormous and remains a source of

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for the descendants of the marriage, Ngāti Kinohaku. In response to this, some Tainui people joked that Kinohaku had been “bought with pipi.” After the marriage Tū-irirangi and Kinohaku settled at Ngaku-raho, a rocky pinnacle near Hangatiki and very near the final base of Kinohaku’s brother Maniapoto at Te Ana-a-Maniapoto / Te Ana-a-uriuri. They had three sons and one daughter together. * Whakapau-tangaroa * Kāhui-tangaroa * Tangaroa-kino * Rangipare, who was meant to marry Wairangi, but eloped with her cousin Tū-taka-moana, son of Maniapoto, with whom she had one son, Rangatahi, an ancestor of the Ngāti Urunumia hapu of Ngāti Maniapoto. After many years, Hinerangi visited Ngaku-raho, while she was fleeing the murder of her father, Mania-takamaiwaho. Tū-irirangi developed a desire to marry her, but she refused. However, Kinohaku was furious that her husband had planned to marry another woman, so she had an affair with Tū-irirangi’s half-brother Pai-ariki. When Tū-irirangi found out, he went to Pai-ariki’s village, Te Rua-o-te-manu near Te Kuiti, intending to murder him, but was unable to do the deed. Afterwards, he went away to Kāwhia, where he re-married and had another son.

Sources

Pei Te Hurinui Jones Pei Te Hurinui Jones (9 September 1898 – 7 May 1976) was a Māori political leader, writer, genealogist, and historian. He identified with the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi. As a leader of the Tainui confederation of iwi and of the Kingitanga mo ...

and Leslie Kelly give accounts of Kinohaku’s life, based on oral traditions that they heard from Whare Hotu of Oparure (an 8th generation descendant of Kinohaku).

Ngāti Kinohaku

The Ngāti Kinohaku hapu of Ngāti Maniapoto are descendants of Kinohaku. They have the following

marae A ' (in New Zealand Māori, Cook Islands Māori, Tahitian), ' (in Tongan), ' (in Marquesan) or ' (in Samoan) is a communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies. In all these languages, the term a ...

(in alphabetical order), most of which they share with various other hapu of Ngāti Maniapoto: # Te Kauae marae and Te Kauae o Niu Tereni wharenui, in Hangatiki, shared with Ngāti Huiao, Ngāti Peehi, and Ngāti Te Kanawa # Marokopa marae and Miromiro i te Pō

wharenui A wharenui (; literally "large house") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a ''marae''. Wharenui are usually called meeting houses in New Zealand English, or simply called ''whare'' ( ...

, in Marokopa, shared with Ngāti Peehi, and Ngāti Te Kanawa # Mōkau Kohunui marae and Ko Tama Tāne wharenui, in Piopio, shared with Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Waiora # Mōtītī marae and Ko te Hungaiti / Hapainga wharenui, in Te Kuiti, shared with

Ngāti Putaitemuri Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...

and Ngāti Tauhunu # Te Waipatoto marae and Waipatoto and Waipatoto Tuarua wharenui, in Oparure

References

Bibliography

* *{{cite news , last1=Kelly , first1=Leslie G. , title=Ngaku-raho Pa, Hangatika, journal=Journal of the Polynesian Society, volume=43, number=170, date=1934, pages=101–105

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