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Best Elsdon 1904. Notes on the custom of rahui. Journal of the Polynesian Society 13: 83-88

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Rāhui protected forest products, cultivated crops, fernroot, flax, or places where ochre obtained.

p.87 When Ngāti-Whaoa slew Koroua at Otakatake on the Paeroa Block, head stuck on rāhui post to prevent people digging fernroot at a certain place. Some time later, a member of Ngāti Whaoa took skull and planted a taro therein, to produce food for his child, given name Ngā-Taro.

p.88 A grove of tutu, known as Ure-takohekohe at Ruatoki formerly protected by rāhui.

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Notes on the custom of rahui

1904
Best Elsdon
Journal of the Polynesian Society
13
83
88

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