Tukumana Taiwīwī Te Taniwha (1862/63–1941) was a notable New Zealand Māori tribal leader and historian.
[1] Writing in his 1929 manuscript entitled ‘Marutuahu’, Tukumana states that he was 11 years of age when he attended the great Ngāti Paoa hākari (feast) which took place in 1874.
This means that Tukumana was born in 1863, during the first year of the Waikato War.
[2] He was mourned at his ancestral home of Waimangō, Firth of Thames, before being interred in the family cemetery there.
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