Photos courtesy of Tairaawhiti Museum:
Where once Te Poho Oo Rukupo stood at Pakirikiri
Photographs by Crawford, William Fitzgerald
Stormy Afternoon
Tumultuous skies,
Thunder and lightening,
A darkened sea.
But over yonder sunshine.
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The ranges to the West of Manutuke Marae.
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Pakirikiri
Te Wherowhero Lagoon features in the earliest histories of traditional accounts and was a place and resource well known to the earliest tipuna.
It is said that Hinehakirirangi of the Horouta waka named the lagoon and the surrounding areas.
Ngaati Kaipoho benefited from the abundance of kaimoana, along the swampy edges of the lagoon.
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