Takaanui Hohaia Tarakawa

Last updated February 26, 2019

Takaanui Hohaia Tarakawa (1852 – 11 December 1919) was a notable New Zealand tohunga, historian, genealogist, and writer. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngai Te Rangi, Ngati Rangiwewehi, Tapuika and Te Arawa iwi. He was born in 1852.^[1]

In the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, a tohunga is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. Tohunga include expert priests, healers, navigators, carvers, builders, teachers and advisors. "A tohunga may have also been the head of a whanau but quite often was also a rangatira and an ariki". The equivalent and cognate in Hawaiian culture is kahuna.

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from eastern Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages some time between 1250 and 1300. Over several centuries in isolation, the Polynesian settlers developed a unique culture, with their own language, a rich mythology, and distinctive crafts and performing arts. Early Māori formed tribal groups based on eastern Polynesian social customs and organisation. Horticulture flourished using plants they introduced; later, a prominent warrior culture emerged.

Tapuika is a Māori iwi of New Zealand.

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↑ Tapsell, Angela Ballara and Paul. "Takaanui Hohaia Tarakawa". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017.

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[DNZB_Tarakawa-1] Tapsell, Angela Ballara and Paul. "Takaanui Hohaia Tarakawa". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017.