ʻUluaki-mata, also known as Teleʻa (active c. 1580-1600 CE[1]), was the twenty-ninth Tuʻi Tonga.
[2] He may have been not a native prince but a foreigner from ʻUvea or Fiji who came with 500 ʻUvean warriors to claim the throne by force.
During the 1600s, ʻUluaki-mata also commissioned the construction of a huge kalia (double-hulled canoe) named the Lomipeau ("wavecutter").
[3] Made in ʻUvea (Wallis), the Lomipeau could reportedly carry hundreds of people, and was used for a number of sacred and prestigious purposes.
[3] ʻUluaki-mata's children included his daughter Sinaitakala-‘ilangileka (a Tuʻi Tonga Fefine, she married a chief from Fiji)[3] and his son Fatafehi.