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Title: History and traditions of the Maoris of the west coast, North Island of New Zealand prior to 1840
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people)
Publisher: New Plymouth, N.Z. Printed for the Society by T. Avery
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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of the ■ Aotea, soon after they landed at Aoteaharbour (named after the canoe) a few miles north. On reachingKawhia, they performed the ceremony called awM, which seems tohave been a common one, known under different names, by which allevil influences supposed to pertain to a new land, were removed, andan avoidance of the desecration of the personal tapu of the new-comerssecured. The name is thus, Ka-awhi-a, the last a forming the passiveof the verb awhi, and ka the sign of the present and future tense. Wemay thus translate the name as the place where all evil influence wasremoved. The tudhu, or sacred altar, used by Hotu-roa, captain andchief priest of Tai-nui, his brother Hotu-nui, and other priests ofthat canoe was situated not far from the modern town of Kawhia (theMaori name of which is Po-wewe), and it is very interesting to notethat its name was given in remembrance of a district (and, probably, a * Most of the localities referred to in this chapter will be found on MapNo. 4.
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ees.G/09-So-* HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF THE TARANAKI COAST. 315 marae) in their ancient home at Tahiti. Ahurei is the name of thetuahii, and Te Fana-i-Ahurai (Te Whanga-i-Ahurai in Maori) is thepresent name of the district a few miles south-west of Pape-ete, chieftown of the French possessions in Oceania, island of Tahiti; fromwhich (as also from Papara, the next district south) the Maoris camein 1350. The first kuniaras^ brought in the Tai-nui, were plantedby Whakaoti-rangi, Hotu-roas wife, at a place which they namedHawaiki—again in remembrance of the general name of their ancienthome—for this was the name given to all the islands of the groupsround Tahiti. The ^ Tai-nui canoe arrived after the Aotea, and findingKawhia unoccupied—the Aotea crew having gone on south—thepeople settled at that harbour, and spread from there all over Waikatoand a large part of the west centre of the North Island. The Ngati-Toatribe, however, remained, settling down near where their ancestorsland

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