Ngāti Hineuru and Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, often known as Tahau, who fought with Te Kooti until a disagreement in 1869. Son of Ngāwaka and Parekaui. He married Ngakiha Te Raukura and had two sons, Paora and Ranginui. In 1866 Te Rangitahau accompanied about 100 Ngāti Hineuru under Te Rangihiroa to Ōmarunui in Hawkes Bay, where they were attacked and defeated by General Whitmore. Te Rangitahau was among the prisoners deported to Wharekauri (Chatham Island). In 1868 he, along with other prisoners, escaped Wharekauri, led by Te Kooti. He fought alongside Te Kooti until 1869, when he defected after the raid at Ōpepe on 7 June. As Te Kooti advanced further into Ngāti Tūwharetoa territory, Te Rangitahau warned people between Waipahihi and Korohe to flee. Later reported at Ōhinemuri and Katitkati, he was living in Taupō in the 1880s.
Te Rangitahau, -1900
Notebook relating to Maori history of Taupo area
Date: [1867-1900]
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Reference: MSX-9031
Description: Notebook containing research notes relating to Maori history (particularly food-gathering practices) from around the Taupo area. It seems that Cowan has used Maori Land Court minute books for his information as he attributes the information to land block names and case names, informant names and dates. Some of the people he mentions are: H Tumatara Pio of Te Teko (aged 77 in 1900), Te Waaka Tamaira (Rangatira block, 1884), Hitiri Te Paerata (mentioned several times), Tini Waata, Wineti Paranihi, Aperahama Werewere, Te Heueheu Tukino, and Te Rangitahau. The book also contains information given to him from Hare Hongi about Maori astronomy, makutu, and the moari [swing]. Contains whakapapa, karakia and waiata. Language - Some parts of the notebook are written in Maori. Arrangement: Item 11 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Album of photographs of Maori
Date: 1860s-1949
From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch
Reference: PA1-o-1038
Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm
Long album 2
Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]
By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-146
Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm
Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962. Attributed works :[Standing portrait sketch of a ...
Date: 1860 - 1920 - 1870 - 1930
By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962
Reference: A-389-019
Description: A full-length portrait sketch of a Maori warrior, wrapped in a cloak and holding a taiaha. He stands in front of a whare with decorated gables. The likeness of the man's face, including his moko, to the photograph of the East Taupo chief Te Rangi-tahau in Volume Two of Cowan's account of the New Zealand wars suggests strongly that the drawing is of him Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E S [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 112 x 72 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-2097.
Rangitahau at Waipahihi, Lake Taupo
From: Burton Bros
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA7-06-06
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
"Views in New Zealand" vol 1 - Photographs taken by Herbert Deveril
Date: 1873-1876
From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums
By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA1-f-173
Description: Photographs of Wellington, Manawatu and the central North Island, taken between 1873 and 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Fragments of letters
Date: 1889, 1920, 1993
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11115-178
Description: Fragments from five letters, one possibly in Te Kooti's hand. The fragments were in an envelope labelled 'Paritu (1993)' which is where the Ringatu church-house called Hurae (July) was. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 letters.
Research papers and drafts
Date: [1911-1930]
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11310-157
Description: Draft stories many relating to Maori waiata. Includes a waiata relating to Raureka's Pass [Browning's Pass], an incomplete story of Haerehuka, 'The exile's lament. The chant of Hoani Papita,' a 'waiata tangi' dated 1899 'na Mere Hapi, o Rotongaio, Taupo, mo tona tane' which begins 'Tera te haeata takina i te ripa...,' and other waiata tangi [laments] one by Tutaka Ngaheu for Te Rangitahau, and another from Waikato. Language - Some waiata in Maori Arrangement: From 27 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Blomfield, William, 1866-1938: [Cartoon caricatures of New Zealanders]
From: Cowan family: Collection
Reference: A-472-050
Description: Caricature drawings of circa 15 Māori individuals with captions, including: - "Te Rarapa" - "Dummy Law & Order" - "Pene Tito the Ngatiawa leader" - "Anaha the carver" - "A member of the band" - "A masher chief' - "First woman to enter the House" - "Te Rangitahau The Warrior Tohunga" - "Tumutara Pia and ancient Tohunga" - "The Tohunga climbing the roof to perform the 'Karakia' or ancient opening ceremony | The sacred fire" - "Te Waru the ancient tattoo master" - "Agin the Government" - "Ohinemutu" - "Tari on the stump" - "Sergt Barnabus - Neno Tahi". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - BLO [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on two sheets of cardboard. Physical Description: Black ink on paper in two sections, 370 x 255 mm.
Research papers relating to whakatauki and pepeha
Date: [1889-1933]
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11310-159
Description: Research papers relating to whakatauki, pepeha and waiata tangi. Includes handwritten notes relating to Tutakangahau's lament for Te Rangitahau and the waiata tangi written by Mere Hapi for her tane. Also printed matter 'On Maori proverbs' by Judge T H Smith [Read before the Auckland Institute, 11th November, 1889]. Also handwritten notes taken from George Grey's 'Ko nga whakapepeha me nga whakaahuareka a nga tipuna o aotea-roa = Proverbial and popular sayings of the ancestors of the New Zealand race' published by Saul Solomon, Cape Town, 1857. Language - Whakatauki and waiata in Maori Arrangement: No obvious number in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Negative of Tahau and his wife and child
Date: ca 1875
Reference: 1/2-174178-F
Description: A better negative (original?) can be found at G4706-1/2 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Rangitahau. [1902-1908].
Date: 1902 - 1908
From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Ruapehu eruption sketchbook. 1902-1908].
Reference: E-599-047
Description: Sketch shows a three-quarter length frontal portrait of a Maori man in a cloak holding a taiaha. If this is a picture of Te Rangitahau, it is posthumous, as he died in 1900. Extended Title - From his Ruapehu eruption sketchbook. 1902-1908, page 47. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing in sketchbook, 173 x 135 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.
Te Rangitahau, also known as Tahau, lying in the porch of a wharepuni - Photograph take...
Date: [ca 1875]
From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints
By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA7-45-02
Description: Te Rangitahau, also known as Tahau, lying in the porch of a wharepuni (sleeping house) holding Totoringa (Patu, Te Rangi Tahau). Ngaikiha Te Raukura (his wife) peers out of the window. One of his two sons sits in the doorway. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril, circa 1875. Also see 1/2-174138 and 1/2-004706 which are of the same image Published, with a lengthy caption, in `Maori in Focus; A Selection of Photographs of the Maori from 1850-1914' by William Main, 1976, page 16. The General Assembly Library is credited. Also see PA7-45-03 which shows the same wharepuni and a Maori woman lying in the porch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 267 x 350 mm
Te Rangitahau standing outside a meeting house
Date: 1900
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17
Reference: PAColl-7489-58
Description: Te Rangitahau, second from right, and four others standing outside a carved meeting house in 1900. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - The second figure from the right is Rangitahau known as "Te Kooti's butcher" 1900 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Maori group outside a meeting house at Waipahihi, includes Rangitahau and Kiriwera
Date: between 1868-1898
From: Burton brothers album 12
Reference: PA1-o-088-13
Description: Maori group outside a meeting house at Waipahihi. Includes Te Rangi Tahau (standing), and Kiriwera (to his right). Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers probably between 1868 and 1898. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3741 - At Waipahihi - Lake Taupo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Deveril, Herbert : Te Rangi Tahau, lying in the porch of a whare puni
Date: [ca 1875]
Reference: 1/2-004706-G
Description: Te Rangi Tahau lying in the porch of a whare puni holding Totoringa (Patu, Te Rangi Tahau). Ngaikiha Te Raukura (his wife) peers out of the window. One of their two sons sits in the doorway. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril, circa 1875. Also see PA7-45-02, 1/2-174138, and PA1-f-173 (image 11), which are the same image. The caption accompanying PA1-f-173 (image 11) reads: Tahau and his Wife and Child. - At one time a follower of Te Kooti, but now living peacably at Waipahihi, on the Shore of Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Published, with a detailed caption, in `Maori in Focus; A Selection of Photographs of the Maori from 1850-1914' by William Main, 1976, page 16. The General Assembly Library is credited. Also see PA7-45-03 which shows the same wharepuni and a Maori woman lying in the porch. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Ngati Tuwharetoa group at Waipahihi, including Te Rangitahau - Photograph taken by Herb...
Date: [ca 1870s]
From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints
By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA7-45-01
Description: Ngati Tuwharetoa group at Waipahihi, circa 1870s. Includes Te Rangitahau in the centre, with a beard. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 268 x 350 mm