George Pulman studio Tāmaki Makaurau, Whetoi Pōmare II, caretakers of taonga: Te Papa Tongarewa. This cartes de visite with silver was copied by Elizabeth Pulman in the 1870s from a much earlier image (for photography in this country) that dates from c.1850
Ko Taumarere te awa
Ko Tapuiwharawhara te maunga
Ko Puketohunoa te pā
Ko Te Karetu te mārae
Ko Ngāti Manu te hapū
Ko Whetoi Pomare II te tupuna
Ngāti Manu wānanga, Karetu mārae and atop Otuihu, Taumarere headland, Bay of Islands
rangihiiroa, āku Ngāti Manu whānaunga atop Otuihu, 30 April 2021, John Harawene, whaea Peita, Arapeta Hamilton, Jennifer Martin, Kay Davis, Sascha Cherrington, Phoebe Davis, Kim Peita, Elizabeth Boutet, Lynette Cherrington, Deb Rewiri me ngā mokopuna. Arohamai if I missed your namesrangihīroa, Ngāti Manu, Ōtuihu, 30 April 2021rangihiiroa, āku Ngāti Manu whānaunga atop Otuihu, 30 April 2021. Arapeta Hamilton, Sascha Cherrington, whaea Peita, Jennifer Martin, Phoebe Davis, Kim Peita rāua ko Lynette Cherringtonrangihiiroa, John McIntosh (far right) and Ngāti Manu roopu, arohamai ki te hautope o ngā mokopuna (movement not a good look with panorama function!)rangihiiroa, Arapeta Hamilton rāua ko Jennifer Martinrangihiiroa, Kim Peita rāua tana māmā, te rae tihi o ŌtuihuArapeta Hamilton, ko Suz Te Tai rāua ko John McIntosh, te tomokanga ki te pā Ōtuihu
Some photos here for my Ngāti Manu cousins recording the wonderful day we shared. Lest we forget 176 years since the destruction by the British of Whetoi Pōmare II’s fortified stronghold Ōtuihu and his wrongful imprisonment for sedition and presumed involvement in the sacking of Kororāreka.
Sergeant John Williams, 58th regiment, adjusted photograph of burning of Otuihu with silhouette of British warship North Star moored off the northern tip of the headland that guards over the Taumarere entrance, 30 April 1845. The figures standing around the fire on te rae tihi are ngā hoia Ingarihi no ngā roopu e rua: ko te Rima Te Kau ma Waru me te Iwa Te Kau ma Ono. Collection: Hocken Library
It was a little strange meeting the current landowner. John McIntosh to me means a great, great grandfather who built and owned the Old Oak tavern in Mangonui (1861). See below.
John McIntosh, Old Oak Tavern (1861), Mangonui waterfront – like Pōmare at Otuihu, McIntosh sold alchohol here. The building of this structure is attributed to McIntosh. There is an earlier hotel Donnybrook that looks a bigger version of today’s Old Oak and that was built by Thomas Flavell (1842) who married Hēnihikahe of Te Aupōuri (from my wife’s Ihaka whānau line)rangihiiroa, entrance, Ngāti Manu whare tupuna, Kareturangihiiroa, view (upper) out through distinctive porch to Puketohunoa – site of the pā to which Pōmare shifted his Ngāti Manu people. Lower image – interior of te Ngāti Manu whare huihui
Great to hear the kōrero from Arapeta Hamilton on our ancestor Pōmare II and hitore surrounding the destruction of Otuihu at this wānanga. There was depth and clarity and a deep sense of injustice that permeated te mita o te reo. Ae, koinā te kōrero. E kore mātou e wareware taua hē.
Sorry for taking so long getting to this Elizabeth Boutet I have been in the middle of writing a substantial piece of work that grows out the wānanga – I was hoping to share but it has grown too large. It is about ancestral resonance and the pathway of tūpuna like Tohe and Ihenga in the North (Muriwhenua/ Kaipara/ Te Tai Tokerau) and the way that names and ancestral journeys connect our different hapū and iwi and rohe one to the other through the complex interlaced layers of whakapapa. E ngā whānaunga, don’t be surprised if this kōrero changes and expands. The pictures will remain. Mauri ora ki āku whānaunga o Ngāti Manu.
whare tupuna, interior, end walls with central image of Whetoi Pōmare II’s whānau and descent linesMark Adams, view above Puhangahau urupā looking towards Karetu mārae whare kai and Kemara Te Tai’s villa (left image), 1995 research trip, directed shot for my book MAORI ART: History, Architecture, Landscape and Theory, Batemans, 2015/2018Mark Adams, view across Puhangahau urupā towards Puketohunoa (right image), 1995 research trip, directed and commissioned shots for my book MAORI ART: History, Architecture, Landscape and Theory, Batemans, 2015/2018rangihiiroa, Georgina Harding (nee Wilson / Panoho) rāua ko tana tama ko Johnboy Harding. Ēnei pikitia kei roto i whare tupuna i Karetu. Moe mai āku whānaunga, takoto mai rā e Gina i raro i te puehu o Puhangahau. Haere ki te poho o te Atua. Haere ki Hawaikinui, Hawaikiroa, Hawaiki pamamao. We miss you.Ko au, he mihimihi, kei roto i te whare tupuna, Karetu. Photo: Phoebe DavisJohn McIntosh e kōrero ana, Arapeta Hamilton e noho ana kei roto i te whare tupuna o Karetu. Photo: Phoebe Davis,
Major Cyprian Bridge, 58th Regiment: another image wrongly attributed to being Otuihu (in the Alexander Turnbull Library). The labelling quite clearly says on the image that it is Karetu and one assumes Puketohunoa, the new pā Whetoi Pōmare II had built for Ngāti Manu. The date is 1846 (so quick turnaround) the year after the burning of Otuihu by the British and their evacuation further inland on the Taumarere river to the Karetu valley
Henry Hulme, Puketohunoa pā, Karetu, 1849, drawing, collection Alexander Turnbull LibraryJames Crawford, Puketohunoa pā, Karetu, pencil on paper drawing, 1850, caretakers of taonga: Alexander Turnbull Libraryrangihīroa, TAKI TORU e tīaho ana, ko ēnei tohu o ngā rangatira ko Whetoi Pōmare II, ko Te Tirarau rāua ko Te Ruki Kawiti no te Tiriti o Waitangi 1840
Ia tau, ia tau, ka huihui ngā uri o taua tupuna ko Kawiti, Te Tirarau rāua ko Pōmare ki ngā mārae o Ngāti Hine, Te Parawhau me Ngāti Manu e mahara ana ki te taki toru o ēnei rangatira
