Zealand, a tohunga (tōhuka in Southern Māori dialect) is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. Tohunga include expert...

The Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 was an Act of the New Zealand Parliament aimed at replacing tohunga as traditional Māori healers with western medicine...

styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian). Tohunga-tā-moko (tattooists) were considered tapu, or inviolable and sacred. Tattoo...

known as Lego Bionicle and originally titled Lego Bionicle: Tales of the Tohunga) is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by Saffire and published by...

progenitor of many Māori iwi. Born in Hawaiki, Rakataura was the senior tohunga (priest/navigator) who led the Tainui migratory canoe to New Zealand. Rakataura...

Māori traditional textiles are the indigenous textiles of the Māori people of New Zealand. The organisation Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa, the national...

Early indigenous contribution to science in New Zealand was by Māori tohunga accumulating knowledge of agricultural practice and the effects of herbal...

and their ancestors and thus each poupou is carved with emblems of the tohunga whakairo’s (carver's) particular lineage. The poupou may also be decorated...

te marae e ngā tohunga (The marae has been built by the experts). The active form of this sentence is rendered as: Kua hanga ngā tohunga i te marae (The...

Zealand's official First World War centenary programme Landmarks Whenua Tohunga David Green, a historian working for the ministry, discovered that significantly...

Hape is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hape (tohunga), Polynesian navigator Janis Hape (1958–2021), American swimmer Patrick Hape...

and narrative prose. Experts in these subjects were broadly known as tohunga. The rituals, beliefs, and general worldview of Māori society were ultimately...

as a primary collector road, except between National Park (SH 47) and Tohunga Junction (SH 49) where it is classified an arterial road. The highway commences...

materials. The use of these instruments, as part of the toolkit of the tohunga (Maori priests), seemed to be exclusively used as an oral flux between...

Toiroa, a priest from Māhia. At Tolaga Bay, Tupaia conversed with the tohunga associated with the school of learning located there, called Te Rawheoro...

who sat at the bow and was navigator, as far as Rarotonga Rakatāura, the tohunga (priest) Taikehu, who sat at the baling point and held the sacred paddle...

Zealand. Rongoā was one of the Māori cultural practices targeted by the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, until lifted by the Maori Welfare Act 1962. In the...

inducing Māori to conform to Pākehā norms; notable among these are the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 and the suppression of the Māori language by schools...

Hoe-o-Tainui, a famous paddle, the kete (basket) given to Whakaotirangi by a tohunga of Hawaiki, the bird Parakaraka (front) who was able to see in the dark...

information cannot be published Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand aimed to replace tohunga as traditional Māori healers...

faults extends 24 km (15 mi) from northwest of Tohunga Junction into the Rangataua Forest. At Tohunga Junction it crosses the Raurimu Fault with a complex...

hospitalisation of a teen, allegedly due to attempts to remove such a curse. Tohunga Williams, Herbert W., 1975. A Dictionary of the Māori Language. 7th edition...

others were pleased at his renouncement of traditional Māori religion and tohunga. Ratana and his followers were interested in a political movement alongside...

women of the village asked the tohunga to trick her into weaving past dawn so that they could learn the skill. The tohunga asked the women to cover the...

Fish of Māui).: 234  When it emerged from the water, Māui left to find a tohunga to perform the appropriate ceremonies and prayers, leaving his brothers...

Hetet DBE (née Hursthouse, 24 May 1892 – 14 June 1995) was a New Zealand tohunga raranga, a master of Māori weaving. Hetet was born in Oparure, King Country...

Smith falsely attributed much of their information to two 19th-century tohunga, Moihi Te Mātorohanga and Nēpia Pōhūhū". In addition, it is now understood...

colonial oppression in New Zealand, the film deals with the impacts of the Tohunga Suppression Act upon Māori traditions surrounding childbirth. The story...

Annie Maude Blackett, librarian Rangiahuta Alan Herewini Ruka Broughton, tohunga, Anglican priest and university lecturer John Bryce, politician Brit Bunkley...

breaking tribal tapu, but tohunga recognised that some families were prone to a certain disease. The standard practice of tohunga was to isolate the victim...