Ngati Toa woman of mana. Mother of Wi Parata Te Kakakura and Hemi Matenga, Metapere lived at Kapiti Island, Motungarara and Waikanae. Te Waipunaahau was named after her paternal grandmother of the Ngati Hinetuhi and Ngati Mutunga tribes. Metapere, or Mehetabel, was her baptismal name taken from the Old Testament. Metapere married George Stubbs, a whaler to whom she had two sons. She later married the Ngati Toa chief Natanahira Te Umutapu (son of Te Rako). She was chosen to escort Wi Kingi Te Rangitake and several hundred other Te Ati Awa from Waikanae to Taranaki in 1848. Prior to this migration all the chiefs of Te Ati Awa ceremonially returned the Waikanae lands to Metapere. She later fixed the boundaries of this land between the remaining Te Ati Awa and Ngati Raukawa. (Dictionary of New Zealand biography Vol 1 M35). She died at Kapiti Island aged approximately 60 years.
Te Waipunaahau, Metapere, -1853
H T Whatahoro Jury - Notebook
Date: 1873-1876
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B040
Description: Contains a list of owners of blocks of land in the Wanganui district, and a number of narratives about; significant events in the history of Ngati Kahungunu, Moriori settlement on the Chatham Islands, events in Hawaiki and subsequent migrations and settlements, the burning of the Te Arawa canoe, and conflicts in the 1820s and 1830s involving Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi, Rangitane, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa Physical Description: ¼ maroon black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 26
Kapiti Island; notes on its geography, history, and flora and fauna
Date: 1876
Reference: MS-1101
Description: Notes taken by an unidentified person on a visit in April 1876 and based on the notes of John O'Meara, a whaler who leased part of the Waiorua block, Kapiti Island in the 1840s. This supplements a fuller account of the flora and fauna by J Buchanan apparently made on the same visit (NZ Times 5 May 1876) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). Physical Description: Ms (22 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa and note book
Date: n d
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-110A
Description: Contains narratives about Maori ancestors living at Hawaiki, including Manaia and Tamatea, and the reasons that they migrated to New Zealand; also includes narrative about various conflicts in New Zealand involving tribes on the south-eastern seaboard of the North Island, and migrations that led to conflicts, or resulted from them; also contains related waiata and haka. Also contains the story about Ngati Tama, Te Ati Awa invasion of the Wairarapa district, including accounts of the battle of Te Tarata in 1829, the capture of Metapere Te Waipunaahau (Ngati Toa) by the Wairarapa tribes, the capture of Te Uamairangi and Te Kakapi-o-te-Rangi, and subsequent peace making at Pito-one (Petone) between Te Ati Awa and Wairarapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
H T Whatahoro Jury - Minute book
Date: 1907
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B037
Description: Contains minutes from the sitting of the Native Land Court at Wellington, with details of successions, subdivisions, leases, removal of restrictions, whakapapa - much of which relates to the Ngati Raukawa tribe and the Ngati Toa occupation of Porirua with special reference to Pikauterangi; also contains biographical notes about Taitoko Te Rangihiwinui Weraroa Kingi, and a list of pa, mahinga kai, and urupa belonging to Ngati Hautumoana Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Marbled boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 22
New Zealand Native Land Commission - Proceedings
Date: Nov-Dec 1888
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-108
Description: Papers relating to claims in the Ikaroa district, specifically the Ngarara Block comprising a large part of Waikanae and the adjacent Kapiti Coast area. Consists of minutes of witnesses evidence from New Zealand Native Land Commission proceedings to determine customary Maori ownership of the Ngarara Block. Contains testimonies from witnesses and participants in the Kuititanga Battle 1839. Some papers from earlier hearing in 1873. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book
Date: ca 1897-1909
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-123
Description: Contains whakapapa from Whanganui, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tara and Kai Tahu in particular; also contains detailed information about the Takitimu canoe, lists of Whanganui hapu, notes about the birth dates of Hemi Taitea's children; there are also notes about conflicts between Kai Tahu hapu, and a letter to Hare Hongi from Huru Moana about Maori cosmology Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Holograph (Black exercise book)
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book
Date: 1888-1896
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B043
Description: Contains whakapapa, boundaries of land blocks around Lake Wairarapa and statements of ownership, notes about the aftermath of the transfer of Lake Wairarapa to the Government and the distribution of the proceeds, a copy of a letter to Judge Butler of the Maori Land Court with regard to the transfer of Lake Wairarapa Also contains narrative accounts of conflicts between Wairarapa people and Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa in the 1820s and 1830s (including a reference to the Journal of the Polynesian Society), narrative accounts of conflicts between Waikato and Te Ati Awa, and narrative accounts about conflicts in the 1820s involving Ngati Kahungunu, Ngapuhi, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Rangitane, Waikato and Ngati Porou Also contains information about traditional whare wananga and the migration from Hawaiki and subsequent settlements in New Zealand, a narrative about Ira, the ancestor of Ngati Ira, and a history of that hapu; also contains information about early contacts between Te Ati Awa and Pakeha whalers and traders Includes an account of the capture of Metapere Te Waipunahau (Ngati Toa), mother of Wi Parata MHR, by Wairarapa Maori and the peacemaking between these tribes, and the later capture of Te Uamairangi and Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi of Te Ati Awa (Poneke) and their subsequent safe return to Te Wharepouri and Te Ati Awa. Also includes details of the invasion of Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Tuwharetoa of Te Roto-a-Tara, Heretaunga (Hawkes Bay) under the chiefs Te Momo-a-Irawaru and Te Heuheu. Includes mention of conflict between Te Ati Awa, Ngati Tama and Waikato culminating in the siege of Pukerangiora Pa, Taranaki. Physical Description: Maroon boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 28
Scrapbook No 3
Date: 1911-1913
From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers
Reference: qMS-0210
Description: Maori Customary Concepts, Religion and tribal narratives including Hauhauism, Karakia, Makutu, and mara-kumara. Includes the capture and illegal imprisonment without trial of Te Rauparaha onboard HMS Driver. Also information on Ta Moko practices, Natural History and the Christchurch Exhibition 1906. Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.
New Zealand Native Land Commission - Proceedings
Date: Nov-Dec 1888
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-107
Description: Papers relating to claims in the Ikaroa district, specifically Waipiro, Porangahau, and the Waikanae - Ngarara Block. Includes list of claimants to the Ngarara Block who qualify through whakapapa and rights of occupation. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Elsdon Best - Notebook vol 1
Date: 1892-1894
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-021
Description: Informants and contents listed at the front. Mainly concerns Maori subjects of the Wellington district and provincial area, as well as some notes on Asian languages. Included are notes by S P Smith, and letters to Smith from Gudgeon. Also contains information on Maori circumcision practices as well as Maori customary concepts and whakapapa specific to the Kurahaupo and Takitimu Waka traditions. Includes comprehensive account of the Ngati Toa - Ati Awa including Puketapu and Ngati Maru - migration to the Kapiti Coast. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Research notes on individual women
From: Bridget Williams Books : Papers relating to Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa
Reference: 92-130-11
Description: Contains information on various women who were not, in the end, included in the book. Names entered in name field Quantity: 1 box(es).