Princess Teri'i-na-vaha-roa (8 August 1879 – 27 April 1917) was the last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Huahine and Mai'ao from 1893 to 1895. Comteporary sources seems to call her Tehaapapa II instead, disregarding the ruling queen by the same name at the time
James Cook
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visited the island.
Biography
Te-ha'apapa III was a member of a royal Tahitian dynasty, the deposed royal family Teururai of Huahine.
As a Tahitian Princess, she became Queen of Huahine.
She was the last Queen of Huahine from 1893 to 1895. She was the eldest daughter of
Marama Teururai
Prince Marama Teururai later known as Regent Marama (17 December 1851 – 7 June 1909) was a member of a Tahitian royal family (House of Teururai) which reigned on the Tahitian island of Huahine during the 19th century.
He was designated as a cr ...
Rurutu
Rūrutu is the northernmost island in the Austral archipelago of French Polynesia, and the name of a commune consisting solely of that island. It is situated south of Tahiti. Its land area is .regnal name Te-ha'apapa III in 1893, and was deposed when Huahine was annexed by the
French
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** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
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Princely House
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of Bora Bora and secondly on 1900 to a native minor noble man called Tini-tua a Tu-ari'i-hi'o-noa .
She had one son by her first husband and eleven other natural children through a morganatic union with Tinitua-a-Tu-Ari'i-hi-ona.
She died at Fare, 27 April 1917.
Ancestry
See also
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French Polynesia
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* Jean-François BARE, ''Tahiti, les temps et les pouvoirs. Pour une anthropologie historique du Tahiti post-européen'', Paris, ORSTOM, 543 p.
* Eugène HANNI, ''Trois ans chez les Canaques. Odyssée d'un Neuchâtelois autour du monde''. Lausanne, Payot & C° Éditeurs, 342p.,
* Teuira Henry, ''Tahiti aux temps anciens (traduction française de Bertrand Jaunez'', Pars, Musée de l'Homme, Société des Océanistes, 671p. (édition originale ''Ancient Tahiti'', Honolulu 1928)
* Bruno SAURA, ''La lignée royale des Tamatoa de Ra'iatea (îles Sous-le-Vent)'', Papeete, ministère de la Culture, 229 p.
* Bruno SAURA, ''Huahine aux temps anciens'', Cahiers du Patrimoine avoirs et traditionset Tradition orale, édition 2006.
* Raoul TEISSIER, ''Chefs et notables au temps du protectorat: 1842 - 1880'', Société des Études Océaniennes, réédition de 1996.