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- Hotunui was a Māori rangatira (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation of Waikato, New Zealand. Through his son Marutūāhu he is the ancestor of...
- Ureia, guardian taniwha of the Hauraki people. Carving from the meeting house Hotunui, 1878...
- Koru kōwhaiwhai patterns on a rafter from the Ngāti Maru wharenui Hotunui...
- the marriage between Wiremu Taipari and his daughter. The house, named Hotunui in honour of an important Ngāti Maru ancestor, now stands in the Auckland...
- houses a large collection of Māori and Pacific Island artefacts, including Hotunui, a large whare rūnanga (carved meeting house) built in 1878 at Thames,...
- Heads opening and sandbars, which is known as Te Manuka-o-Hotunui or Te Manukanuka-o-Hotunui, describing the anxiety Hoturoa felt when attempting to navigate...
- known carvings include the Mataatua Wharenui in Whakatāne (1875), the Hotunui whare rūnanga in 1878 (now on display in the Auckland War Memorial Museum)...
- this, and so Tūtānekai suggested that his younger sister Tupa marry him. Hotunui arrives in Kāwhia on the Tainui, but is falsely accused of stealing sweet...
- creature), depicted in a carved poupou (house post) from the interior of Hotunui, a carved meeting house of the Ngati Maru people, Thames, New Zealand....
- together Closeup of tukutuku in the wharenui Hotunui (1878) Closeup of tukutuku in the wharenui Hotunui (1878) "Tukutuku Tuturu Maori", Educational booklet...