Koukourārata Marae
papatipu marae, Te Rūnanga o Koukourārata — Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāti Huikai and Ngāi Tūtehuarewa of Ngāi Tahu
papatipu marae
The record
- Wharenui
- Tūtehuarewa
- Wharekai
- Te Pātaka o Huikai
- It serves
- Te Rūnanga o Koukourārata — Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāti Huikai and Ngāi Tūtehuarewa of Ngāi Tahu
- Iwi
- Ngāi Tahu
- Hapū
- Ngāi Tūhaitara · Ngāti Huikai · Ngāi Tūtehuarewa
- Address
- 9 Puāri Road, Port Levy
- Street
- Puāri Road
- Suburb
- Port Levy
- District
- Christchurch City
- Reserve
- Māori Reserve 874
What the directories say
Te Rūnanga o Koukourārata's marae at Port Levy, once the largest Māori settlement in Canterbury. Its whare Tūtehuarewa — raised by Māori and Pākehā together in the 1920s — is one of very few whare tūpuna in the country named for a woman. Huikai of this place was the father of Tautahi, the chief Ōtautahi is named for.
The marae’s own kōrero
The marae’s own telling belongs to its people, these doors go to their sites and the directories they speak through.
In the archive
A document a search names is a lead worth reading, not a claim the site makes.
The roll beside it
The kāinga and pā the record names nearest it, Ōnawe Pā (18.4 km) · Ōtautahi — Tautahi's kāinga (20.9 km).
Nearest on the roll by distance, proximity, not kinship; each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people.
The reports nearby
2 council reports pinned within 250 m of the place, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 2 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Trees - General
Roading/StreetsQuestions, answered briefly
9 Puāri Road, Port Levy, Christchurch, on the map →.
Tūtehuarewa, the wharekai is Te Pātaka o Huikai, as the directories the marae speaks through state it.
Iwi: Ngāi Tahu. Hapū: Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāti Huikai, Ngāi Tūtehuarewa.
papatipu marae, it serves Te Rūnanga o Koukourārata — Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāti Huikai and Ngāi Tūtehuarewa of Ngāi Tahu. It stands in Christchurch City.
Sources: Ngāi Tahu — Koukourārata papatipu rūnanga · Tūtehuarewa Marae — Christchurch City Libraries Ti Kōuka Whenua · Environment Canterbury — Ngāi Tahu Papatipu Rūnanga Marae layer.
A directory, not a history: name, wharenui, affiliation and address as each rūnanga and the public directories state them. A listing is a lead, not a claim, each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people and is linked, not retold, here. Coordinates pin the marae site as the map layers and directories place it.