Tumate Mahuta (c. 1893 – 29 April 1938) was a Māori King Movement leader and negotiator in New Zealand.
He belonged to the Ngāti Mahuta iwi of the Waikato confederation.
[1] He was born at Waahi, Huntly, probably in July 1893, to Mahuta and his wife Te Marae, a daughter of Amukete (Amuketi) Te Kerei, a chief who was killed at the Battle of Rangiriri in 1863.
His elder brothers were Te Rata and Taipu (who died in March 1926),[2] and he had younger brothers Tonga and Te Rauangaanga.
Before World War I, he wed Te Atarua (Piri) Herangi, younger sister of his cousin Te Puea, in an arranged marriage.