Pare-kāwa

[3] Her mother was the daughter of Te Ata-inutai of Ngāti Raukawa, through whom she was a descendant of Hoturoa, captain of the Tainui canoe.

[4] Her parents had been married as part of a peace agreement which ended an attack by Te Ata-inutai on Ngāti Tūwharetoa.

[2] As the eldest child, Pare-kāwa had significant mana and, as a result, Tama-mutu gave her the land west of Lake Taupō, as far as the Ongarue River, including Hauhungaroa, Tuhua, Pureora, Whare-puhanga, Hurakia, and Tuaro-paki.

[7] Because her younger brother, Tū-te-tawhā, had avenged their maternal grandfather Te Ata-inutai, Pare-kāwa decided to do him honour with a sumptuous gift.

She instructed her people to hunt birds, pluck them, roast them, and preserve them in packages made of Tanekaha bark, called papa or pātua.