Tuahiwi Marae
papatipu marae, Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga — the mana whenua of Christchurch
papatipu marae
The record
- Wharenui
- Maahunui II
- Wharekai
- Te Ao Mārama
- It serves
- Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga — the mana whenua of Christchurch
- Iwi
- Ngāi Tahu
- Hapū
- Ngāi Tūāhuriri
- Address
- 219 Tuahiwi Road, Tuahiwi
- Suburb
- Tuahiwi
- District
- Waimakariri District — just over the city boundary
- Reserve
- Māori Reserve 873
What the directories say
Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri's marae just north of the city boundary — the mana whenua of Christchurch itself, gathered here after Kaiapoi Pā fell in 1832. The current whare Maahunui II opened in 2012 on the site of the ancestral house Tū-te-kawa; the marae hosted the Waitangi Tribunal hearings of the Ngāi Tahu claim.
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, Kaiapohia — Kaiapoi Pā (7.4 km) · Ōtautahi — Tautahi's kāinga (21.4 km).
Nearest on the roll by distance, proximity, not kinship; each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people.
The green nearby 1
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m, measured to the outline itself, so a place on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
Questions, answered briefly
219 Tuahiwi Road, Tuahiwi, Christchurch, on the map →.
Maahunui II, the wharekai is Te Ao Mārama, as the directories the marae speaks through state it.
Iwi: Ngāi Tahu. Hapū: Ngāi Tūāhuriri.
papatipu marae, it serves Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga — the mana whenua of Christchurch. It stands in Waimakariri District — just over the city boundary.
Sources: Ngāi Tahu — Ngāi Tūāhuriri papatipu rūnanga · Maahunui II: a gift to future generations — Te Karaka · 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.