occupies part of the reserve under a concession. It operates under the name "Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland". The business was bought in 2012 by Te Arawa Group...

a forestry licence over the land. New Zealand State Highway 38, from Wai-O-Tapu to Murupara crosses the forest. "Forestry – Sabie". "Hell in the heartland"...

Tiniroto Road; the former SH36) to Gisborne. State Highway 38 leads from Wai-O-Tapu via Murupara, The Ureweras, Lake Waikaremoana and Frasertown to Wairoa...

Waikaremoana Holiday Park are located on the lakeshore, along SH38 (from Wai-O-Tapu via Murupara to Wairoa), which connects the lake to the central North...

the Waimamaku Valley in Northland. A part of the Wai 38 claim related to taonga, in particular: wahi tapu "spiritual places of special significance to tangata...

Ngāpuhi into large geographic and urban divisions. Kia tū tika ai te whare tapu o Ngāpuhi. (May the sacred house of Ngāpuhi always stand firm.) — Ngāpuhi...

chiefs who had raised him up had made him a repository for their own mana and tapu and for that of their lands. Pōtatau was now a man of intensified prestige...

(or Rainbow Mountain)". 2023. Rainbow Mountain Thermal Area, Waiotapu (Wai-O-Tapu), Rotorua District, Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand Berryman, Kelvin;...

trees were used for railway sleepers. Also, construction polluted a puna wai tapu (holy spring) where tohunga lived. In 1935 the driver and fireman of a...

spiritual aspirations of late-twentieth-century Māori. He set up a marae called Tapu Te Ranga in the 1970s in Island Bay in Wellington, and lived there until...

important to Māori communities are given special classifications, including wāhi tapu for sites of spiritual, traditional, or ritual importance. Ten places located...

Retrieved 5 May 2017. "Ko Wai Matau". Te Pihopatanga o Te Tairawhiti. Retrieved 5 May 2017. "Our Structure". Te Pihopatanga o Te Tairawhiti. Retrieved...

people observe spiritual traditions such as tapu and noa. Certain objects, areas, or buildings are tapu (spiritually restricted), and must be made noa...

throughout New Zealand to chose his successor by consensus. They chose Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō, Tūheitia's youngest child and only daughter. As is custom,...

Moriarty was one of the founders of a theatre company called Te Rākau Hua o te Wao Tapu, which works in prisons, youth residential homes and on marae; Pearse-Otene...

38–42. Waitangi Tribunal (1996). The Taranaki report: Kaupapa tuatahi (Wai 143) (PDF) (Report). Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved 9 August 2010. "Treaty...

natural force—ihi’. According to the New Zealand Ministry of Justice: Mana and tapu are concepts which have both been attributed single-worded definitions by...

highly tapu. Slaves (taurekareka or mōkai) were members of rival tribes who had been taken prisoner during warfare and were made to work on non-tapu activities...

Ngāti Te Wahanga or Ngāti Wawahanga. He had pa (fortified villages) at Puke-tapu and Te Arero. The area was located on one of the main routes from the Urewera...

he caught a few hāpuku. She ate the fish, which had become infused with tapu from the hooks, and as a result she was gradually blinded. Later she was...

te ngohi i tunu ("I cooked the fish"; literally I the fish cooked) and Mā wai te haka e kaea? ("Who will lead the haka?"). Biggs (1998) developed an analysis...

conventions. On 2 July 2011, the Waitangi Tribunal released its report into the Wai 262 claim, Ko Aotearoa Tēnei ("This is Aotearoa (New Zealand)"). The report...

and Kōkako. Then he placed Tamainu-pō, Tū-kōtuku, and the newborn under a tapu, telling them not to get out of their canoe or reply to calls from the banks...

The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Te Tiriti o Waitangi), sometimes referred to as Te Tiriti, is a document of central importance to the history of New Zealand...

traditions. According to local legend, Tākitimu and its crew were completely tapu. Its crew comprised men only: high chiefs, chiefs, tohunga and elite warriors...

famous mere and adzes, including Pahikaure, Kaiarero, Te Rito-o-te-rangi, Te Inumanga-a-wai, and a second Te Ramapākura. The second Te Ramapākura was owned...

Tapuaenuku who climbed Nga Tapu Wae o Uenuku ('the sacred steps of Uenuku'), the rainbow path of his war-god ancestor Uenuku, on Tapuae-o-Uenuku in search of...

other smaller islets and rocks in the lake. Traditionally, Ngā Puna Wai Karikari o Rakaihautu say the lake was dug by rangatira Rākaihautū on his journey...

waterways in the region, including Wai-o-ngana, Waiwakaiho, and the Waitara River in the Taranaki region. Historical tapu in the Wellington region include...

single of 1984. After the 1986 Te Reo Māori claim at the Waitangi Tribunal (Wai 11), which argued that Māori language was a taonga (treasure) that the New...