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Chapter 8: Tangihanga Flashcards

1
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Tangihanga

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Death customs

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Hine-tītama

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Daughter of first woman

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Rarohenga

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The place where the spirits of the dead reside

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Te Rerenga Wairua

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The leaping place of Spirits, where they leapt to Rarohenga or back to Hawaiki

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Tāne

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Father and husband of Hine

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Hine-nui-i-te-pō

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Hine’s new name after fleeing to the underworld

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Māui-tikitiki-o-te-Taranga

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Sought to destroy Hine to mKe humans immortal. Changed into a lizard, reentered womb. Hine woke up with the fantail laughter and crushed him between her thighs, killing him

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Ōhākī

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Final wishes and farewells, contained political and legal elements, instructions for utu, sometimes instructions on where to be buried, public gathering

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Utu

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Reciprocity

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Whare tūroro

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Temporary structure for a dying person, burnt down after death

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Whakanoa

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Removal of tapu

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Kaumātua

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Elder

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Mate tauā

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Death as the result of warfare

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Mate rangatira

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Noble death

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Mōteatea

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To grieve, traditional chant/song/poetry

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Mate aitu, mate tara-ā-whare

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Death by sickness or natural causes

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Mate aituā

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Death by accident

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Mate whaiwhaiā

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Death by mākutu

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Mākutu

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Witchcraft, sorcery

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Preparation of dead

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Women remove tūpāpaku, prepare for display (wash corpse, rub oil and sometimes kōkōwai on it, dress hair with feathers), place corpse with knees to chin and arms wrapped around legs, wrap in fine mats, cloaks, transport to marae in dugout canoe

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Tūpāpaku

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Kōkōwai

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Wharemate, whare taua, whare pōtae

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Room for the dead during the tangi

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Altamira

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Platform for dead in wharemate

25
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Changes due to hygiene issues

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Body must be in a coffin (not sitting up)

3 day max tangi

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Kawa

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Slight variations in customs from iwi to iwi, hapū to hapū, etc.

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Possible locations for corpse during tangi

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Inside house on centre back wall under pou tuarongo
Under third poupou on tara whānui of house
Under window on verandah of house
Make-shift separate house is built next door

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Whānau pani, kiri mate, kura tūohu

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Immediate family of deceased, job is only to mourn and remain beside the dead

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Paepae

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Orator’s bench

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Karanga

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Calls on to the marae

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Ringawera

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Kitchen hand

32
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Pouaru

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Widow, traditionally would cut their hair, bodies with shells or obsidian flints to express grief, get the sadness out

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Pare kawakawa

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Mourning wreath (for the head)

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Tohi

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Dedication ceremony for babies

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Kawakawa

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Important plant, used during tangi and tohi, traditionally used to disguise the stench of death, symbol of death

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Hui

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Events/gatherings on the marae

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Wairua

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Tono mate

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When another marae requests to have the body lie at their marae, common for people with origins from more than one hapū/iwi, highly ranked individuals

39
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Tono

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To request, commission

40
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Kawe mate, hari mate

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Process of taking the memory (in photo form) of the deceased to a different area so that people unable to attend the tangi can mourn

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Poroaki

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Final farewells, night before the burial

42
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Pō mihimihi

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Celebration of life the night before the burial, more informal, immediate family may speak

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Urupā

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Burial ground

44
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Kuia

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Elderly women

45
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Poroporoaki

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Calls during the carrying of the body from the marae to the burial ground

46
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Nehu

47
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Hahunga

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Traditional practice of exhuming the body from its initial, shallow grave, about a year after death

48
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Takaki whare

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“Trample the house” by ministers and family to remove tapu

49
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Hākari

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Brings immediate family back from the land of the dead, whakanoa for all involved, feast

50
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Hura kōhatu

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Unveiling of the headstone, replaces hahunga, offers closure

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