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Taawhiao Pootatau Te Wherowhero, 1822-1894


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    • Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, 1822-1894
    • Te Wherowhero, Taawhiao Pootatau, 1822-1894
    • Wherowhero, Taawhiao Pootatau Te, 1822-1894
    • Kiingi Taawhiao: Kiingi o te Maungaarongo (1860-1894)
    • Kīngi Tāwhiao: Kīngi o te Maungārongo (1860-1894)
    • Taawhiao, Kiingi, 1822-1894
    • Tāwhiao, Kīngi, 1822-1894
    • Taawhiao, King, 1822-1894
    • Tāwhiao, King, 1822-1894
    • Matutaera Pōtatau, Kīngi, 1822-1894
    • Matutaera Pootatau, Kiingi, 1822-1894
    • Tuukaaroto Matutaera Pootatau Te Wherowhero Taawhiao, 1822-1894
    • Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao, 1822-1894
    • Taawhiao, Tuukaaroto Matutaera Pootatau Te Wherowhero, 1822-1894
    • Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, 1822-1894
    • Tāwhiao, King of the Māori, fl. 1860-1894
    • Tāwhiao, King of the Māori, active 1860-1894

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          • Tāwhiao, King of the Māori, active 1860-1894
          • Tāwhiao, King of the Māori, fl. 1860-1894

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          • found: The realms of King Tawhiao, 1995:t.p. (King Tawhiao) p. 3, etc. (Tawhiao, King of the Maori; d. 1894; proclaimed the second Maori King)
          • found: Na Matutaera Potatau, na te Atua i mea me te iwi hoki, Kingi ... 1863
          • found: Kīngi Tawhiao ; Te Hapati me te Ra o te Ariki, 1894?
          • found: Ko te korero o te haerenga mai o Kiingi Tawhiao ki Akarana, 1882
          • found: Waikato Museum WWW site, viewed on May 5, 2022:Sculpture of Maaori King to be unveiled page (Kiingi Taawhiao (Tuukaaroto Matutaera Pootatau Te Wherowhero Taawhiao))
          • found: Ngā tāngata taumata rau WWW site, viewed on April 27, 2022:Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero page (Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao; Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero; Māori King, Waikato leader, prophet; Tāwhiao, of Ngāti Mahuta in the Tainui confederation of tribes, was the son of Waikato leader Pōtatau Te Wherowhero and Whakaawi, Pōtatau's senior wife. He was born at Ōrongokoekoeā on the upper Mōkau River towards the end of the musket wars between Ngāpuhi and Waikato; it is said that he was named Tūkāroto to commemorate Pōtatau's stand at the siege of Mātakitaki pā in May 1822. Later he was baptised Matutaera (Methuselah) by the Anglican missionary Robert Burrows. In 1864 Te Ua Haumēne, the Hauhau prophet, bestowed on him the name Tāwhiao; On Pōtatau's death in 1860 Tāwhiao became the second Māori King; Tāwhiao died on 26 August 1894 at Pārāwera) Kōrero: Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero page (he Kīngi, he kaihautū, he matakite, he kaihanga whakapono)
          • found: The Reed dictionary of modern Māori, 1995p. 130 (māori)
          • found: Email from Grayson Croasdale, The Office of the Kiingitanga, October 7, 2022(Taawhiao Pootatau Te Wherowhero, 1822-1894; Kiingi Taawhiao: Kiingi o te Maungaarongo, 1860-1894 )
          • found: Kingitanga, 2001:t.p. (Tawhiao)

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          • 1997-05-16: new
          • 2023-01-11: revised

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