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Tautahi Hetaraka. 1900. The Aotea Canoe. The Migration of Turi to Aotearoa. Journal of the Polynesian Society 9: 200-233

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Turi arrived in New Zealand between Kawhia and Aotea. Went south overland, giving names to several places on the coast. Stopped at Pātea, which he called Great-Pātea-of-Turi.

P.226 Planted the karaka seed brought with them, at a place called Pou-o-Turi.

Made his cultivation near Rangi-tawhi, named it Hekeheke-i-papa. When field planted with kūmara, there were 8 hillocks in each of which there was a seed kūmara. In autumn when the food was harvested there were 800 baskets of kūmara.

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The Aotea Canoe. The Migration of Turi to Aotearoa.

1900
Tautahi Hetaraka.
Dictated by Hetaraka Tautahi, assisted by Werahiko Taipuhi of Tauranga-a-ika near Waitotara (Taranaki).
Journal of the Polynesian Society
9
200

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