Ti Tuhi a Manawatere (Auckland) Traditional Cache
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Ti Tuhi a Manawatere (Auckland)
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The cache is at the end of a nice beach in the east.
Ti Tuhi a Manawatere marks the landing of Manawatere, an anchestor of the Ngaita people. The Pohutukawa tree marks that spot.
*** ON the foreshore to the east of Howick grows a large pohutukawa known still by Ngati-tai (the local Maori tribe) as “Te Tuhi-a-Manawatere.”
This man Manawatere came from Hawaiki, he did not come in a canoe, he glided over the ripples of the waves. He came by way of Hauraki to Marae-tai (Enclosed Sea). He landed at this pohutu-kawa, and made his mark (tuhi) thereon, using a kind of red ochre paint known as Karamea. The mark he made was thus and was a sign to those following that he had come that way. Hence a proverb in respect of things or persons lost and being searched for among us the Ngati-tai: “Ma te tuhi rapa a Manawa-tere ka kitea.” “By the vivid mark of Manawa-tere it will be found.”**** (from the Journal of the Polynesian Society by G. Graham)
The cache is a 250 ml container, clear with green lid, with a logsheet. Please bring your own pen.
PLEASE REHIDE WELL.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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