He arrived at a place where he could not go any further up the river in "Te Hoiere" and so tied it up at a place he named Te Herenga. He continued his journey on foot and climbed Maungatapu. He reached a place where a karearea (New Zealand falcon) was sitting and called it Parikarearea. There he surveyed the area and saw Whakatu. He looked back upon where he had travelled and named all that he saw Te Hoiere after his waka. He then set up a tuahu made of pakohe to acknowledge his tupuna and atua and to claim the mauri of the area for him and his descendants. He then named the mountain Maungatapu because of these actions. Maungatapu incorporates our cultural values of take ahi ka and is a core part of our cultural identity. Ngāti Kuia tupuna had considerable knowledge of places for gathering kai and other taonga, ways in which to use the resources of the maunga and tikanga for the proper and sustainable utilisation of resources. All these values remain important to Ngāti Kuia toda y. The site forms part of several important trails which link Whakatu and Te Hoiere. These were later shown by our iwi to iwi hou and European settlers. Ancient Ngāti Kuia waiata refer to the maunga. E rere i te ao runga ana mai o The day flows above Maungatapu Maungatapu It turns beyond, Whakatu (Nelson) there Ka tahuri ki tua, Kai Whakatu ra Over there! E kora ra e! He will turn, Manugaone hunga Mana e huri mai, Maungaone hunga At Totaranui (Queen Charlotte Sounds), Ki Totaranui, i kuihi atu ai striding. The maunga formed an important part of the Ngāti Kuia pakohe industry and is in essence the maunga referred to in the waiata above as maungaone hunga and in the Ngāti Kuia whakatauki “he maunga pakohe, he wai pounamu”, as both taonga were sourced nearby. This place incorporates our cultural value of take ahi ka and is a core part of our cultural identity. We are identified as tangata whenua here. Maungatapu is identified in Ngāti Kuia pepeha for both Te Hoiere (Pelorus) and Whakatu (Nelson) and is a central mark of identity for Ngāti Kuia living in these areas, as demonstrated by the Ngāti Kuia pepeha: Maungatapu te Maunga Maungatapu is the mountain Te Hoiere te Awa Pelorus is the river Titiraukawa te Kainga Titiraukawa is the village Ngāti Kuia te Iwi And Ngāti Kuia are it s people. Maungatapu was included in the Te Hoiere and Ko Rai areas identified by Ngāti Kuia tupuna in 1883 as a place of their lands. Ngāti Kuia’s relationship with its maunga is integral to its identity as a people. Maungatapu symbolises for Ngāti Kuia people the intense nature of their relationship 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. Maungatapu incorporates the cultural value of Ngāti Kuia mauri; Ngāti Kuia has mana, whakapapa 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. Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements Page 29 of 163