Hauhau-te-rangi

The name of a celebrated jade axe, made from the same greenstone as the axe Tutauru: E rua ana toki, ko Tutauru, ko Hauhauterangi. The Arawa, Tainui, and other famous canoes were hewn out with this axe, which was part of the celebrated "fish" of chief Ngahue (see Poutini).

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References

Sources

  • Grey, Sir George. (1855). Polynesian Mythology. Auckland: Brett, p. 83.
  • Tregear, Edward. (1891). Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary. Wellington: Government Printer, p. 54.