Kuia tupuna; Parororangi (‘Stormy Sky’), who is named after a place in Ngāti Kuia korero wairua (Parororangi was (and is) an important weather indicator); and Tahiakai, named after an incident with Ngāti Kuia which means ‘the heaping of food’. This site incorporates our cultural values of take kitea and take tupuna. It is a place which our tupuna discovered, named and used. Te Anamāhanga was the landing place of Kup e’s waka, Te Matahourua. Indentations on a toka moana (rock) were formed by Kupe footprints at Te Ope-a-Kupe. Today Ngāti Kuia is kaitiaki of this very tapu place. Te Ope-a-Kupe is a tauranga waka (canoe landing site) still used by Ngāti Kuia people today. This site was the landing place for important Ngāti Kuia waka and tupuna includin g: Whakapapa Tatai hikohiko Kupe Waka and Rangatira Hine Matahourua, the canoe of Kupe Matuahautere Te Hoiere, the canoe of Matuahautere, Matuakuha Te Whakamana Te Ara-a-Tawhaki, the canoe of Te Whakamana Tukauae marries Hinerewha Kuia Tahatu, the canoe of Tukauae. This site incorporates our cultural values of take ahi ka. Te Anamāhanga was one of the first places in Te Tau Ihu occupied by Ngāti Kuia and they have lived the re continuously since their arrival. It contains pā sites, cultivations, kainga and urupā. It was also an important fishing area (mahinga mataitai) giving access to koura, paua, karengo and kopakopa (a type of mussel) and birds, and was a source of game introduced after contact (deer and pigs). Te Anamāhanga was included in the Taonui -a-Kupe and Te Hoiere areas identified by Ngāti Kuia Tupuna in 1883 as a place of their lands. Ngāti Kui a’s relationship with its whenua and wai is integral to its identity as a people. Te Ope-a- Kupe symbolises for Ngāti Kuia peop le the intense nature of their relati onship to their environment and the mauri or life force that is contained in all parts of the natural environment and binds the spiritual and physical worlds. Te Ope-a-Kupe incorporates the cultural values of Ngāti Kuia mauri. Ngāti Kuia has mana, whakapap a associations and history here. We have tikanga and kawa which involve tapu and noa at this place. We have a responsibility and obligation to this place and its cultural, spiritual, historic and/or traditional values. PUHIKERERU (MT FURNEAUX) This wā hi tapu incorporates our cultural values of take kitea and take tupuna. It is a place which our tupuna discovered, named and used. Whakapapa tatai hikohiko Ngāti Kuia korero tuku iho states that Kupe brought with him Kupe a kaitiaki called Rupe who was a woodpigeon. His role was to Hine test the fruits of the forest. When Kupe was resident at Matuahautere Punaruawhiti and Taonui-a-Kupe at Totaranui he had Rupe Matuakuh a test the forests at Puhikereru. While here the kaitiaki heard Tukaua e of the fruits at what later became known as Te Rupe-o- Kui a Ruapaka at Te Hoiere. Kupe used his tao (spear) to hunt rupe (pigeon) on the maunga and along the ridges that flowed from it. He called these ridges, of which Puhikereru is part, Te Taonui-a- Kupe. Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements Page 21 of 163