Uenuku (or Uenuku-Kōpako, also given to some who are named after him) is an atua of rainbows and a prominent ancestor in Māori tradition. Māori believed...
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Tapuae-o-Uenuku, formerly Mount Tapuaenuku, is the highest peak in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. The name translates from Māori as "footprint...
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Te Ure o Uenukukōpako is a Māori iwi of the Te Arawa confederation in the Bay of Plenty of New Zealand. Chief Uenukukōpako was a great-great-great-great...
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Te Uenuku, or simply Uenuku, is an early Māori carving stored (but not displayed) at Te Awamutu Museum in the North Island of New Zealand. Te Uenuku (literally...
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Pouerua. From this union came the first-born son, Uenuku. Uenuku was also known as Uenuku-kuare (Uenuku who was not blessed upon birth due to the ignorance...
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Te Korowai o Wainuiārua (redirect from Ngāti Uenuku)
middle Whanganui River area. It is made up of the Tamahaki, Tamakana and Uenuku ki Manganui-a-te-Ao, nā Tukaihoro hapū. Its area of interest covers some...
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Tahu, the family lived on Mangaia. Ruatapu became offended when his father Uenuku elevated his older half-brother Kahutia-te-rangi ahead of him. When Ruatapu...
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1350. A trickster, his theft of fruit from the orchard of the chieftain Uenuku escalated into a feud which forced him to leave the ancestral homeland of...
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Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku is an Auckland Council-owned and operated arts venue in the suburb of Māngere, in Auckland, New Zealand. The purpose-built...
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national importance. Te Uenuku, or simply Uenuku is an important early Māori carving housed at Te Awamutu Museum. Te Uenuku (literally "The rainbow")...
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