wairoa - Te Aka Māori Dictionary

Hinemihi

1. (personal name) eponymous ancestor of Ngāti Hinemihi, a hapū of Ngāti Tūhourangi and the name of their meeting house which stood at Wairoa before the Tarawera-Rotomahana eruption in 1886. It now stands at Clandon Park in England.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 83-84;)

Ngāti Kahungunu

1. (personal noun) tribal group of the southern North Island east of the ranges from the area of Nūhaka and Wairoa to southern Wairarapa.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 89;)

pakohe

1. (modifier) argillite.

He toka tū moana a Rangitoto i whakairotia ai te toki pakohe (Te Ara 2016). / D'Urville Island was a centre where argillite adzes were manufactured.

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2. (noun) argillite, metamorphosed indurated mudstone - a dark grey stone often used for weapons and sometimes musical instruments. Particularly associated with the Nelson-Marlborough region, Rangitoto (D'Urville Island), along the Whangamoa mineral belt, and in the upper reaches of the Maitai, Wairoa and Motueka Rivers.

Kua kitea ētahi i hangaia mai i te pakohe me te tangiwai (Te Ara 2012). / Some have been found made of argillite and bowenite.

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3. (noun) weapon made of argillite.

Rangi-puawhe, Te Keepa Te

1. (personal name) (?1826-1905) Te Arawa, Tūhourangi; important chief who lived at Te Wairoa and survived the Rotomahana-Tarawera eruption in 1886.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 78-81;)

Hinemihi

Ngāti Kahungunu

pakohe

Rangi-puawhe, Te Keepa Te

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