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Māhaki
Māhaki (''fl.'' 1470s) was a Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) in the area north of modern Gisborne on the East Cape of New Zealand and the ancestor of the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki iwi. He may have lived in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Life Māhaki was the son of Tamataipūnoa and Tauhei-kurī. Tamataipūnoa was a direct descendant of Toroa, captain of the ''Mātaatua'' canoe, while Tauhei-kurī was descended from Kahungunu and Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the ''Tākitimu'', and Paikea. Around 1475, Tamataipūnoa accompanied his half-brother Tūtāmure on a raid to attack Maunga-a-kāhia, where Tauhei-kurī lived with her elderly father, Kahungunu. The latter brokered a peace which was to be sealed by the marriage of Tauhei-kurī and Tūtāmure. But when Tauhei-kurī was brought before Tūtāmure and Tamataipūnoa, she did not know which of them was which. Since Tamataipūnoa was more handsome, she sat before him repeatedly. Tūtāmure looked at his reflectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki
Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki is one of the three principal Māori people, Māori iwi of the Gisborne District, Tūranga district; the others being Rongowhakaata and Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngai Tamanuhiri. It is numerically the largest of the three, with 6,258 affiliated members as of 2013. The rohe (territory) of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki extends from the Mangatu land blocks to Hangaroa Matawai, Pātūtahi and Whataupoko near Gisborne. The boundary also includes Tuamotu Island. While majority of members are situated within the traditional tribal boundaries, there is a significant number present in the Wellington Region, Wellington, Auckland Region, Auckland and Hawke's Bay Region, Hawke's Bay regions. History The iwi is named for the ancestor Māhaki, who was a direct descendant of Mātaatua, Toroa, captain of the ''Mātaatua'' canoe, of Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the ''Tākitimu'', and Paikea. gives the first line of descent as Tamatea Arikinui - Rongokako - Tamatea Urehaea - Kahungunu - Tau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongomai-wahine
Rongomaiwahine was a Māori chieftainess and chief ancestress of the Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu, and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki ''iwi''. She lived on the Māhia Peninsula, probably in the late fifteenth century. Life Rongomaiwahine was the daughter of Rapanui and grew up at Te Awapata on Māhia. Her ancestry is uncertain. Mitchell mentions "claims" that she was descended from Ruawharo, the tohunga (priest) of the ''Tākitimu'' canoe, and Popoto, one of the captains of the ''Kurahaupō'' canoe, which had made landfall at Te Awapata. Kahungunu had entered the East Cape region after departing from the Bay of Plenty due to an argument with his brother. He married several women of the region, including Hine-puariari, who said ("the remarkable thing is that my husband's thing wouldn't fit! Most of it had to stay out!"). When she heard this, Rongomaiwahine declared ("that's because it is a shallow pool; if it had fallen into the deep pool of Rapa .e. her fathernow openi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kahungunu
Kahungunu was a Māori people, Māori ''ariki'' (chieftain) of the Tākitimu tribal confederation and ancestor of the Ngāti Kahungunu and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki ''iwi''. He probably lived in the late fifteenth century. Although born in Kaitaia, he was raised in Tauranga, leaving for the east coast after he quarrelled with his older brother. There he married a number of women and had numerous offspring. Tradition particularly dwells on his courtship of Rongomai-wahine, which culminated in the murder of her husband Tama-taku-tai. Afterwards, he settled at Maunga-a-kāhia on Māhia Peninsula. In his old age, he negotiated a peace when Maunga-a-kāhia was attacked by his nephew Tūtāmure and he summoned the war party which avenged his son at the Battle of Kai-whakareireia. Life Kahungunu's father was the explorer Tamatea Urehaea, through whom he was descended from Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the ''Tākitimu'' canoe. His mother was Iwipupu, one of three daughters of Ira and Tekerau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakaipaaka
Rakaipaaka was a Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi'' and ancestor of the hapū In Māori language, Māori and New Zealand English, a ' ("subtribe", or "clan") functions as "the basic political unit within Māori society". A Māori person can belong to or have links to many hapū. Historically, each hapū had its own chief ... of Ngāti Rakaipaaka. He grew up in the area of modern Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne, but was defeated in battle by Tu-te-kohi and resettled at Moumoukai on the Nūhaka River in northern Hawke's Bay, where his descendants still live today. In his later life, he supported his nephew Tama-te-rangi in a conflict with Ngāi Tauira. Life Rakaipaaka was the son of Kahukuranui and Tū-teihonga. Through his father he was a direct descendant of Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the ''Tākitimu'' canoe. He was born at Waerengaahika (modern Hexton, New Zealand, Hexton, near Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne). He had one full sister, Hineman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rākei-hikuroa
Rākei-hikuroa was a ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of Ngāti Kahungunu, who may have lived in the fifteenth century. His efforts to establish his son Tūpurupuru as ''upoko ariki'' (paramount chief) of Ngāti Kahungunu led to a conflict with his brother-in-law, Kahutapere, who expelled him from the Gisborne District, Gisborne region, beginning a long-lasting conflict within Ngāti Kahungunu. After his expulsion, Rākei-hikuroa led his people south, beginning the Ngāti Kahungunu expansion into the Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa regions. Life Rākei-hikuroa was the son of Kahukura-nui, through whom he was a descendant of Tamatea Arikinui, the captain of the ''Tākitimu'' canoe and of the early explorer Toi-te-huatahi, Toi, and of Ruatapuwahine, daughter of Ruapani, through whom he was a descendant of Pāoa (waka captain), Pawa and Kiwa (mythology), Kiwa, captain and priest of the ''Horouta''. He had one full-sister, Rongomai-tara, as well as two half-brothers, Rakaipaaka and Tamanuhiri, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamatea Urehaea
Tamatea Urehaea (also known as Tamatea Pōkai-whenua and Tamatea Pōkai-moana) was a Māori people, Māori ''ariki'' (chieftain) of the Tākitimu tribal confederation and ancestor of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi'' (tribe), who probably lived in the fifteenth century. He is famous as an explorer who circumnavigated both islands of New Zealand. After he was expelled from his base at Kaitaia, he settled in Hawke's Bay, but continued to explore the North Island. In Ngāti Kahungunu tradition, he is distinguished from his grandfather Tamatea Arikinui who captained the ''Tākitimu'' canoe on its journey from Hawaiki to New Zealand. Northland and Tauranga traditions say that they were the same person. Life Tamatea's father was Rongokako, himself the son of Tamatea Arikinui who captained the ''Tākitimu'' canoe on its journey from Hawaiki to New Zealand. His mother was Muriwhenua. In some versions, he is said to have been born in Hawaiki. He received his second name, Urehaea ("cut penis") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisborne, New Zealand
Gisborne is a List of cities in New Zealand, city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region). It has a population of Gisborne District Council has its headquarters in the central city. Etymology The Gisborne area was known in Māori as ''Tūranganui-a-Kiwa'' (the 'great standing place of Kiwa'), after Kiwa (mythology), Kiwa, who arrived on the Waka (canoe), waka ''Tākitimu'', which landed at Gisborne. The original English language name for the settlement was ''Tūranga''. It was renamed ''Gisborne'' in 1870, in honour of New Zealand Colonial Secretary (New Zealand), Colonial Secretary William Gisborne, although he had no real connection with the area,“What is Gisborne called in te reo Maori?”. ''1964''. Retrieved 9 January 2024. to avoid confusion with Taur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tākitimu
''Tākitimu'' was a ''waka (canoe), waka'' (canoe) with ''whakapapa'' throughout the Pacific Ocean, Pacific particularly with Samoa, the Cook Islands, and New Zealand in ancient times. In several Māori mythology, Māori traditions, the ''Tākitimu'' was one of the great Māori migration canoes, Māori migration ships that brought Polynesians, Polynesian migrants to New Zealand from Hawaiki. The canoe was said to have been captained by Tamatea. Cook Islands Māori traditions The ''Tākitumu'' was an important waka in the Cook Islands with one of the districts on the main island of Rarotonga consequently named after it. Thomas Davis (Cook Islands politician), Sir Tom Davis, a former prime minister of the Cook Islands, wrote, in the form of a novel, an account of 300 years of voyaging of the ''Tākitumu'' by his own forebears as told in their traditions. New Zealand Māori traditions The ''Tākitimu'' appears in many traditions around New Zealand. Most accounts agree that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongokako
Rongokako was a New Zealand Māori people, Māori ''ariki'' (chieftain) and tohunga (priest) of the Tākitimu tribal confederation and ancestor of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi'', who is famous for his giant leaps. He is said to have lived at the end of the fourteenth century, about eighteen generations before the mid-twentieth century. Several places along the east coast of the North Island are traditionally connected to him. Life Rongokako was the son of Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the Tākitimu canoe from Hawaiki to Aotearoa New Zealand. His mother was Tato, a direct descendant of Toi-te-huatahi, Toi-kai-rākau, who harnessed Tamatea when he landed at Mount Maunganui (mountain), Mauao and thereby forced him to marry her. William Colenso quotes a genealogy naming him as son of Tato and brother of Hikutapuae, Hikitaketake, Rongoiamoa, Taihopi, Taihapoa, Kahutua, Motoro, Te Angi, Kupe, Ngake, Paikea, and Uenuku. Fetching the ''rimurapa'' Rongokako studied at the whare wānanga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
Māori () are the Indigenous peoples of Oceania, indigenous Polynesians, Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of Māori migration canoes, canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed Māori culture, a distinct culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Early contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century, ranged from beneficial trade to lethal violence; Māori actively adopted many technologies from the newcomers. With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago Museum Kuri - OMNZVT2162 03 (cropped)
Otago (, ; ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island and administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government region. Its population was The name "Otago" is the local southern Māori dialect pronunciation of "Ōtākou", the name of the Māori village near the entrance to Otago Harbour. The exact meaning of the term is disputed, with common translations being "isolated village" and "place of red earth", the latter referring to the reddish-ochre clay that is common in the area around Dunedin. "Otago" is also the old name of the European settlement on the harbour, established by the Weller Brothers in 1831, which lies close to Otakou. The upper harbour later became the focus of the Otago Association, an offshoot of the Free Church of Scotland, notable for its adoption of the principle that ordinary people, not the landowner, should choose the ministers. Major c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waipaoa River
The Waipaoa River is in the Gisborne District, in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It rises on the eastern slopes of the Raukūmara Range, flowing south for to reach Poverty Bay and the Pacific Ocean just south of Gisborne. For about half of this distance, its valley is followed by State Highway 2. The river has several important tributaries, among them the Wharekōpae, Waikohu, Mangatū, Te Ārai, Waingaromia and Waihora rivers. Major settlements along the banks of the river include Te Karaka, Ormond, and Pātūtahi. ''Waipaoa'' is Māori for "Pāoa's river", Pāoa being the captain of the Horouta canoe (hence "Waipaoa River" is tautological). The river has formed the fertile and highly productive Poverty Bay flats on the edge of Gisborne. The Waipaoa River Flood Control Scheme was built in the 1950s. Stopbanks are to be raised by 2031, as eroded soil, especially from the Waingaromia and Mangatū catchments, has built up the river bed, the annual flow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
