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- house are affiliated with the Ngāti Ruanui hapū of Hāmua and Hāpōtiki. Wharepuni Marae and its Tūpaia meeting house are affiliated with the Ngāti Ruanui...
- or wood store, pataka or storehouse, and increasingly from the 1870s wharepuni or community meeting house. Significant finance and mana was invested...
- to best advantage. To the rear of the house stands a wharepuni or Māori house known as Te Wharepuni o Anehana, the traditional carving coming from Rotorua...
- main Highway to Taumarunui (now Hirangi Road). In 1910 construction of a wharepuni begun which eventually became the Hirangi Marae complex. The first Europeans...
- classic Māori communities slept in rectangular sleeping houses (wharepuni). The wharepuni were made of timber, rushes, tree ferns and bark, they had a thatched...
- The main village centres around Te Hāroto Marae. Te Rongopai is the wharepuni (meeting house) and Piriwiritua is the wharekai (dining hall) a meeting...
- 14 g 50% silver 50% cupronickel Milled A Māori woman standing, with a wharepuni (prin****l house of a Māori village) and pūhara (an elevated platform...
- marae is Ngāti Hinepare. The whare-tīpuna is also named Kauwhata, the wharepuni named Te Aroha o Ngā Mokopuna and the wharekai named Moarikura. The pepeha...
- notices are posted for gatherings to rebuild the Pā. On 21 July 2012, the Wharepuni at Maniati was demolished by controlled burn, and will be replaced by...
- 15th century communities became bigger and more settled. People built wharepunisleeping houses with room for several families, and a front porch. Other...