New Zealand - Maori Culture - Tama-te-kapua Meeting House, Ohinemutu - Unknown Photographer - Real Photo Postcard Format #279086 Tama-te-kapua - In Māori tradition Tama-te-kapua was the captain of the Te Arawa canoe which came to New Zealand from Polynesia in about 1350. The reason for his leaving his homeland was the theft by his brother Whakaturia and himself of breadfruit (kuru or poroporo) from a tree belonging to a chief named Uenuku. The Te Arawa canoe landed at Maketu, New Zealand, where Tama-te-kapua settled. His descendants peopled this part and the Rotorua region. Today their descendants say of Te Arawa canoe that the bow piece is Maketu and the stern-piece is Mount Tongariro. The meeting house at Te Papaiouru Marae is named after Tamatekapua. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama-te-kapua) Ohinemutu - Thermal area and suburb of Rotorua city, on the shores of Lake Rotorua. Ōhinemutu was a Ngāti Whakaue village before the government laid out Rotorua on the other side of Pukeroa Hill. The Tamatekapua meeting house, on Te Papaiouru marae, is named after the captain of the Arawa canoe, which brought the tribe’s ancestors from Polynesia. First opened in the centre of Ōhinemutu in 1873, the meeting house was demolished in 1939, but was rebuilt and reopened in 1943. Many of its carvings may be much older. An earlier Tamatekapua meeting house stood on Mokoia Island. The Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) met at Ōhinemutu in 1895. (https://nzhistory.govt.nz/keyword/ohinemutu)