- 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...
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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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Early indigenous contribution to
science in New
Zealand was by Māori
tohunga ac****ulating
knowledge of
agricultural practice and the
effects of herbal...
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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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Island dialect pronunciation of wānanga,
which means "the lore of the
tohunga or priest" or a
place of learning. Lake Wānaka lies at the
heart of the...
- 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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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...
- 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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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...
