Posts

Showing posts from June, 2021

‘Te Ahatokai’ a hākari in 5 May 1876

Image
Te Wananga Pukapuka 3, No. 17, p. 221

Meeting of the ‘Māori Church’ of the Bishopric of Aotearoa, 23-24 March 1898, Pārāwai, Hauraki

Image
Pipiwharauroa, Issue 8, 1 October 1898, Page 2

'Te Hui nui ki Ohinemuri' (Visit by King Mahuta to Hauraki), 1895

Image
  Te Paki o Matariki, No. 4, 1895, p. 4

'Rarangi Ingoa o nga Minita' (Kīngitanga), 1895

Image
  Te Paki o Matariki, No. 4, 1895, p. 4

'He Whakaaturanga tenei i nga ingoa o nga Takawaenga ara Pirihimana', (Policemen of the Kīngitanga), 1895

Image
  Te Paki o Matariki, No. 4,1895, p. 4

Pāoa, an extract from the manuscript by Tukumana Te Taniwha (1929) of Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Pāoa

Image
This lithograph - showing Kaitōtehe Pā in the foreground and Taupiri in the background - was based upon an 1844 painting by George Frederick Angas. The ancestor Pāoa originally lived at this pā on the Waikato River (opposite Taupiri) before migrating to Hauraki. See here . This version of the story of the ancestor Pāoa was extracted from a manuscript entitled 'Marutuahu', written by Tukumana Te Taniwha of Ngāti Whanaunga and Ngāti Pāoa in 1929. The manuscript is held in the Library of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. You can see the catalogue entry for the manuscript here . The story covers the following events in the life of Pāoa: Pāoa's lineage, being the younger sibling of Paretahuri and Mahuta of Tainui and Te Arawa Pāoa is embarrassed during the visit by his older brother Mahuta to his home at Kaitotehe Pā, near  Taupiri, Waikato. Pāoa departs Waikato and moves to Mirimirirau, a pā on the banks of the Piako River, Hauraki. Pāoa receives an invitation from Tukut