MAUNGAKIEKIE

MARAE

Published 2005 by Art Department working in collaboration with Maori Department Penrose High SchoolGreenlaneAuckland

Introduction to Maungakiekie Marae. ‘From Maori traditions, such as those recorded by Mr Justice Fenton in 1868 it is learnt that the first known inhabitants belonged to the Waiohua people, a group that included related sub-tribes; the Nga Iwi, the Nga Oho and Nga Riki.By the middle of the 18th century (1750) the Waiohua had an outstanding leader named Kiwi Tamaki, who ruled over the whole isthmus from his principal pa One Tree Hill or Maungakiekie.’ (1982) P10. Lady Fox, (1982), describes ‘Maunga’ as hill, and ‘Kiekie’ as a ‘stong climbing plant’, the botanical name being, Freycinetia banksii. This plant is a parasite on trees ( in the North Island bush). Maungakiekie therefore, is implied as a place which was covered in bush. Maori used the leaves of the kiekie plant for plaiting into mats and baskets. The original tree on the summit of the hill was an ancient Totara (Podocarpus totara), and was planted about 1600. One of the Ngati Awa, passing south, were asked to stay by the Ngariki, who were descended from Titahi’s people. While staying there the wife of the Ngati Awa chief gave birth to a son, and being a child of high rank, a traditional ceremony was observed and a totara seedling, on which the baby’s umbilical cord had been cut, was planted on the summit of the hill. The child was called Koroki and lived at Maungakiekie until he reached manhood. So great was Koroki’s ‘mana’ that the little tree grew and flourished, for 200 years. The Maoris named the hill after this tree ‘Te Totara I ahua’ or ‘the Totara that stands alone’. (1982), P14. When John Logn Campbell, on his first visit to Auckland in 1840, saw the hill, he also was impressed with it, and named the mountain ‘One Tree Hill’. ‘Our school marae stands in the shadow of this historic mountain which is an icon for many visitors to Tamaki Makaurau for many years.’ Wai DennisCultural Co-ordinatorHOD Te Reo Maori.

Waharoa : Entry into Maungakiekie Marae

He Tohunga Matauranga An achiever graduating at the highest level of Matauranga Maori.

Te Whare Wananga – Puakiekie “The bloom of the Kiekie plant”, which adorned the terraces of Maungakiekie Mountain a century ago.

(A) Ngutukaka (B) Mangopare (C) PuhoroReflects the beak of Reflects the Reflects the The Kaka Hammerhead shark curving waves of the sea.

RarangaTe Kete Matauranga a Tane Tane handed down from the heavens the three baskets (Kete) of knowledge.

TUKUTUKU

(a) Nga Roimata

(b) Poutama “Stairway to greater knowledge”

POUPOU: Nga Tupuna O Nga Iwi TUKUTUKU: Poutama

POUPOU: Pou Whakairo O Nga Tipuna

Beverley Towns & Wai Dennis

Penrose High School2005

Bibliography. In the Shadow of Maungakiekie, A history of One Tree Hill and its environs from pre-Maori times to 1989 , (1982), One Tree Hill Borough Council, Auckland.