Tū-irirangi

[3][7] The amount of food gathered by Tū-irirangi and his tribe for the wedding feast was enormous and remains a source of mana for his descendants, Ngāti Kinohaku.

[8][6] The earthworks and cuttings carried out to fortify the site were still visible as of 1932 and include an unusual trench designed to allow access to a cliff face so that besieged forces could rappel down from the summit to a spring halfway up the pinnacle, called Nga-roro-o-te-Huaki.

[9] A rangatira named Pākira brought a war party from Whanganui against Ngaku-raho at a time when most of Tū-irirangi’s men were away on a fishing expedition.

[10][11] It is not clear why this expedition cames, Pei Te Hurinui Jones suggests that they were seeking revenge for the earlier campaign by Tamāio against the Ngāti Hā who had established themselves on the Whanganui River at modern Taumarunui.

When the people had gathered, they performed the tū waewae haka (a war dance with weapons) for Maniapoto, who died before the end of the meeting.

[2] One day, toward the end of the seventeenth century, Tū-irirangi went from Kāwhia to the Wai-tētē Creek, where he started to make a fishing raft from a whau tree.

[16] A man called Whanowhano-ake came out from nearby Manu-aitu and struck Tū-irirangi on the head with his kotiate club, killing him.