Ripeka Pai-A-Te-Hau

Ngāti Porou



Ripeka Pai-a-te-hau was the younger sister of Mere Raiha Hineitukua; these two were among the aristocratic women of Ngāti-Porou, of the time when Christianity was introduced into Waiapu. Both these women married Iharaira Houkamau.

Biographical sources

  • "He Oriori Mo Te Ua-O-Te-Rangi./A Lullaby For Te Ua-O-Te-Rangi." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. Apirana Ngata and trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Society by A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1961. 81.

    Music

  • "He Waiata Mo Te Wai-Piro./A Drinking Song." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha. The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. A. T. Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 3. Wellington, N.Z.: Polynesian Soc., 1970. 52-53.
  • Traditional

  • "He Oriori Mo Te Ua-O-Te-Rangi./A Lullaby For Te Ua-O-Te-Rangi." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. Apirana Ngata and trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Society by A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1961. 80-81. Rpt. as "He Oriori Mo Te Ua-O-Te-Rangi/Song For Te Ua-O-Te-Rangi." in Māori Poetry: An Introductory Anthology. Ed. Margaret Orbell. Auckland, N.Z.: Heinemann, 1978. 66-67.
  • Note on this song by Orbell in Māori Poetry: An Introductory Anthology: (pp 97-98).