Zealand, a tohunga (tōhuka in Southern Māori dialect) is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. Tohunga include expert...
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The Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 was an Act of the New Zealand Parliament aimed at replacing tohunga as traditional Māori healers with western medicine...
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styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian). Tohunga-tā-moko (tattooists) were considered tapu, or inviolable and sacred. Tattoo...
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Lego Bionicle: Quest for the Toa (redirect from Bionicle: Tales of the Tohunga)
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...
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Rakataura (redirect from Hape (tohunga))
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...
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Māori traditional textiles (redirect from Tohunga raranga)
Māori traditional textiles are the indigenous textiles of the Māori people of New Zealand. The organisation Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa, the national...
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Early indigenous contribution to science in New Zealand was by Māori tohunga accumulating knowledge of agricultural practice and the effects of herbal...
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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...
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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...
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Ministry for Culture and Heritage (redirect from Landmarks Whenua Tohunga)
Zealand's official First World War centenary programme Landmarks Whenua Tohunga David Green, a historian working for the ministry, discovered that significantly...
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and narrative prose. Experts in these subjects were broadly known as tohunga. The rituals, beliefs, and general worldview of Māori society were ultimately...
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Hape is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hape (tohunga), Polynesian navigator Janis Hape (1958–2021), American swimmer Patrick Hape...
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cultures. 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...
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Toiroa, a priest from Māhia. At Tolaga Bay, Tupaia conversed with the tohunga associated with the school of learning located there, called Te Rawheoro...
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receive mulched or puréed food through the kōrere. It was also used to feed tohunga that were under tapu. "Object: Korere (feeding funnel)". Museum of New...
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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...
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baritone Last name Matiu Parakatone Tahu (?–1863), New Zealand tribal tohunga (expert) and mission teacher Timana Tahu (born 1980), Australian rugby...
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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...
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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...
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Parliament passed the Tohunga Suppression Act, which made tohunga practices illegal and punishable by fines or imprisonment. The Tohunga Suppression Act was...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Smith falsely attributed much of their information to two 19th-century tohunga, Moihi Te Mātorohanga and Nēpia Pōhūhū". In addition, it is now understood...
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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...
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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...
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others were pleased at his renouncement of traditional Māori religion and tohunga. Ratana and his followers were interested in a political movement alongside...
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Annie Maude Blackett, librarian Rangiahuta Alan Herewini Ruka Broughton, tohunga, Anglican priest and university lecturer John Bryce, politician Brit Bunkley...
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Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru was an 18th-century Māori rangatira and tohunga of the Ngāti Te Rangiita hapū and ariki (paramount chieftain) of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa...
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Clive Ernest Fugill CNZM (born 1949) is a New Zealand Māori tohunga whakairo (master carver), author and long serving kaiako whakairo (carving lecturer)...
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