Kōkako (Tainui)

[1] In a version told to Bruce Biggs by Elsie Turnbull, Manu-Tongātea is instead a man of Maungatautari, who committed adultery with a lady of Marokopa and left behind a kōkako-feather cloak after which Kōkako is named.

[2] After spending some time in Marokopa, Kōkako led a raiding party down the Waikato River and into Manukau Harbour, where they seized the Āwhitu Peninsula.

While he was still on the fence, Kōkako's forces broke and fled into their fortress and Tamainu-pō caught sight of his father, recognising him by his red feather-cloak.

[6] Kōkako withdrew to the island of Tai-pōuri near Rangiriri on the Waikato River (or Okarahea according to Mohi Te Rongomau).

Kōkako led them to the tūāhu altar and performed the tohi ritual for both Tamainu-pō and his newborn son, naming him Wairere.

[11] The story is also reported in an 1871 manuscript by Wiremu Te Wheoro, which was published in John White The Ancient History of the Maori: IV Tainui (1888).