Matakore

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Matakore spent the rest of his life at peace and was very prosperous. Due to his great mana it was customary for the people to offer him the first part of anything that they caught in the river or in the mountains. A Tainui tradition reports that, on one occasion, the people came with these offerings when he was asleep, but when they woke him up, he looked at the food and then went back to sleep, saying “If you wake me up, let it be for the whatu turei of Rua.” Whatu turei was a cake made out of hīnau berries, but the phrase is a sexual double entendre. The story is told as a contrast with the gluttonous behaviour of some other chiefs and Matakore’s phrase has become a Māori proverb (whakataukī).

Family Matakore married Wai-harapepe, a descendant of Hekemaru, son of the Te Arawa chief Pikiao and they had a son: Mania-takamaiwaho, who married Tore-kauaea, daughter of Tū-te-ao-mārama.

He also married Tuki-taua, daughter of Wairere and had a daughter: Waiko-hika, who married Te Kanawa the elder and had two daughters: Pare-nga-ope and Tira-manu-whiri.

Matakore’s descendants, Ngāti Matakore, share seven marae in the southern Waikato with various other hapū of Ngāti Maniapoto, and one marae in Manawatu with hapū of Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Toa.