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
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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 ...
,
prince regent
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of Huahine by his wife Tetuanuimarama a Te-u-ru-ari'i, Princess of
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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in September 1895.
Marriage
She married first at Fare on 15 May 1895 (divorced 6 August 1897) to
His Highness
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Teri'i-te-vae-a-ra'i-a-Mai, a descendant of Ma'i, the Princely House 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
*
French Polynesia
)Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze")
, anthem =
, song_type = Regional anthem
, song = " Ia Ora 'O Tahiti Nui"
, image_map = French Polynesia on the globe (French Polynesia centered).svg
, map_alt = Location of Frenc ...
List of monarchs who lost their thrones in the 19th century
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Afghanistan
*Zaman Shah, deposed 1801.
*Mahmud Shah Durrani, deposed 1803, reinstated 1809, redeposed 1818.
* Shoja Shah, deposed 1809, reinstated 1839
*Dost Mohammad Khan, depo ...
External links and sources
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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
Teuira Henry (24/27 January 1847 – 23 January 1915) was a British Tahitian scholar, ethnologist, folklorist, linguist, historian and educator. She worked to reconstruct a lost manuscript on the history of Tahiti written by her grandfather, Engli ...
, ''Tahiti aux temps anciens (traduction française de Bertrand Jaunez'', Pars, Musée de l'Homme,
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, 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.