Rangi-uru

The wife of Whakaue-kaipapa, the ancestor of the Ngāti-whakaue tribe, and by him the mother of three sons, viz. Tawake-heimoa, Ngarara-nui, and Tūtea-iti. It was after the birth of her third son that she eloped with Tū-whare-toa, who had come to Rotorua as a stranger on a visit. From this affair sprang Tūtānekai, who was an illegitimate child. Afterwards she returned to her first husband and bore him another son, Kopako, and a daughter, Tupa. They all resided on the island of Mokoia.

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