Zealand, a tohunga (tōhuka in Southern Māori dialect) is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. Tohunga include expert...
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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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Lego Bionicle: Quest for the Toa (redirect from Bionicle: Tales of the Tohunga)
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...
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Early indigenous contribution to science in New Zealand was by Māori tohunga accumulating knowledge of agricultural practice and the effects of herbal...
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Rakataura (redirect from Hape (tohunga))
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...
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Māori traditional textiles (redirect from Tohunga raranga)
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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and 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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te marae e ngā tohunga (The marae has been built by the experts). The active form of this sentence is rendered as: Kua hanga ngā tohunga i te marae (The...
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Hape is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hape (tohunga), Polynesian navigator Janis Hape (1958–2021), American swimmer Patrick Hape...
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