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Te whakatuwheratanga o Te Tumu Herenga Waka : 6 Tihema 1986, Poneke, Te Whare Wananga o Wikitoria

5b. HINGANGAROA and IRANUI

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5b. HINGANGAROA and IRANUI

5b HINGANGAROA/IRANUI

5b HINGANGAROA/IRANUI

Porou and Hamo's first son was Hau. Hau's first wife, (not shown in the genealogy), was Takotowaimua and their daughter was Kehutikoparae who grew up under the care of Ueroa, Hau's younger brother. Later she returned to Hau and Tamateatoia's family and then married one of her nephews, Manutangirua. It was from that marriage that the famous ancestor Hingangaroa came. As is shown above, Hau's second wife was Tamateatoia and it was from her that the name, Wahineiti, originated. Hingangaroa's first wife was Tamateataharoa. From Iranui and Hingangaroa came three sons and it is these three that make up Ngati Porou whanui.

Hingangaroa was the founder of the famous whare wananga of the Uawa district called Te Rawheoro. He was an expert in the arts, in whakapapa and in building whare and canoes and especially in the joining of different parts of the canoe. According to one tradition it was Iranui, Kahungunu's sister who taught Kahungunu the now famous haumi join at Kaimatai, Whakaki a few miles north of Wairoa. It was through Hingangaroa that the art of carving, painting and weaving spread north to the Waiapu to the Iwirakau whare wananga and further north again to the Tukaki whare of Te Kaha. And it was to him that Iwirakau and Tukaki gave the sacred cloak of their ancestors the Ngaio tukirarotonga as payment for his knowledge and for the manaia and taowaru.