Photos courtesy of Tairaawhiti Museum:
Where once Te Poho Oo Rukupo stood at Pakirikiri

Workings by Joyce Whaitiri-Hingston
Photos courtesy of Tairaawhiti Museum:
Where once Te Poho Oo Rukupo stood at Pakirikiri
Tumultuous skies,
Thunder and lightening,
A darkened sea.
But over yonder sunshine.
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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