Turongo

Tainui

1844 -



Turongo "is a famous ancestor, an ancestral chief of the peoples of the Tainui canoe area. He went to the East Coast, to the district of Ahuriri and the home of Te Angiangi where he built a house. While he was building the house he began to court Mahinarangi".

Biographical sources

  • Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. Apirana Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Soc. by A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1961. 299.

    Music

  • "He Waiata Mo Tona Whare/A Song For His House." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. Apirana Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Soc. by A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1961. 298-299.