Puketapu is a
Māori language
Māori (), or ('the Māori language'), also known as ('the language'), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. Closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and ...
word meaning ''sacred hill'', and may refer to:
People
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Erenora Puketapu-Hetet
Erenora Puketapu-Hetet (née Puketapu, 28 January 1941 – 23 July 2006) was a noted New Zealand weaver and author. A key figure in the Māori cultural renaissance, she helped change perceptions of Māori weaving/raranga from craft to int ...
(1941–2006), weaver
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Īhāia Puketapu (1887–1971), Te Āti Awa leader
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Ihakara Puketapu
Ihakara Porutu "Kara" Puketapu is a leader of the Te Āti Awa iwi in Waiwhetū, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. .
Kara was born to Īhāia Pōrutu (Paddy) Puketapu of the Te Āti Awa iwi and Taranaki-born Vera May Yeates (1904 – 16 March 1991), a P ...
, Te Āti Awa leader (son of Ihaia Porutu Puketapu)
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Jean Puketapu
Jean Gloria Edith Puketapu or Jean Puketapu-Waiwai (26 July 1931 – 31 July 2012) was a Ngāi Tūhoe Māori language native speaker and co-founder of the first kōhanga reo.
Puketapu was one of thirteen children of Haami and Te Ngaroahiahi Wai ...
(1931–2012), Māori language activist
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Priyani Puketapu
Priyani Puketapu (born 27 December 1990) is a New Zealand journalist, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2011, representing Wellington. There was subsequently controversy, with claims that some of the ...
(born 1990), beauty queen
Places
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Puketapu (Otago), a prominent hill above the town of Palmerston
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Puketapu, Hawke's Bay
Puketapu is a rural community in the Hastings District, New Zealand, Hastings District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island.
It is located west of Napier, New Zealand, Napier and north of Hastings, New Zealand, Hastings.
Marae
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, a rural community in the Hastings District
Schools
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Puketapu School in New Plymouth
* Puketapu School in Hawkes Bay
Other
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Puketapu Radio based in Palmerston, New Zealand
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