Pe`e, performed by Aperehama Manoa

Item — crate: R043838626, Reel: 5000027018398

Identifier: AMPS 2023/01. Series 2. Item 2/47

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

First lines begin: "Tuki rua te miro i Avaiki | Ua ū Ngariki i te miro ka ta"

Dates

1967-11-13

Creator

From the Collection: McLean, Mervyn (1930-2022) (Person)
From the Collection: Mokotupu, Tepaki (Person)
From the Collection: Naku, Simona (Person)

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Biographical / Historical

About the battle at Karanga between the Ngariki tribe and Kirikovi, who was chief of Akataura tribe at the time of Captain Cook (1777).

Kirikovi was among those who swam out to Cook's ship, and he received from Cook a metal axe which was afterwards used for slaying the human victims, or "fish", chosen as a sacrifice to the god Rongo.