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Young Nick's Head
Te Kurī also known as Young Nick's Head (also known as Ngā Pari mā mai rā, Te Kurī o Whata and Te Kurī a Pāoa/Te Kurī a Pawa.) is a prominent headland at the southern entrance to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Poverty Bay), on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.
It occupies an important place in the voyaging traditions of Horouta and Takitimu, and is closely associated with the ancestor Pawa, the captain of the Horouta waka, whose journeys through the district are commemorated in numerous place names along the East Coast.
The headland was named by James Cook's HMS Bark Endeavour expedition in October 1769, from which the English name "Young Nick's Head" was derived from the man that first sighted land.
The settlement of Muriwai, also known as Te Muriwai o Whata is located just inland.
Several traditional Māori names are associated with the headland, reflecting the diversity of traditions preserved by different iwi and hapū. It is most comonly known today as Te Kurī a Pāoa/Te Kurī a Pawa ("The Dog of Pāoa" or Pawa), although Te Kurī, and Te Kurī o Whata were names also used traditionally)
According to one tradition, Pawa (Pāoa) lost his kurī (dog) while travelling along the coast. From the summit of the cliffs he recognised the likeness of his dog in the reefs below, which thereafter became known as Te Kurī a Pāoa. A Ngāti Porou tradition, recorded by Colonel Thomas William Porter, states that the dog was killed by mākutu (sorcery) and transformed into the headland itself. The reefs below the cliffs were also remembered as an important taunga ika (shark fishing ground), while the cliffs themselves are known as Ngā Pari mā mai ra (White cliffs over there), and was named by Kiwa
The origins of the name were already debated during the nineteenth century. An 1865 manuscript attributed to a Ngāti Porou author records that while some authorities maintained the dog belonged to Pāoa, others believed it belonged to Tarawhata and other origins all together. These differing accounts demonstrate that no single explanation was universally accepted among tribal traditions.
Te Kurī was centuries later the first land sighted by the crew of Captain James Cook's ship, Endeavour, dated on Friday, 6 October 1769. Cook promised a reward to the first crewman to sight land and this reward was delivered to 12-year-old Nicholas Young, assistant to the ship's surgeon, in the form of two gallons of rum and the name of a prominent landmark for their own maps.
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Young Nick's Head
Te Kurī also known as Young Nick's Head (also known as Ngā Pari mā mai rā, Te Kurī o Whata and Te Kurī a Pāoa/Te Kurī a Pawa.) is a prominent headland at the southern entrance to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Poverty Bay), on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.
It occupies an important place in the voyaging traditions of Horouta and Takitimu, and is closely associated with the ancestor Pawa, the captain of the Horouta waka, whose journeys through the district are commemorated in numerous place names along the East Coast.
The headland was named by James Cook's HMS Bark Endeavour expedition in October 1769, from which the English name "Young Nick's Head" was derived from the man that first sighted land.
The settlement of Muriwai, also known as Te Muriwai o Whata is located just inland.
Several traditional Māori names are associated with the headland, reflecting the diversity of traditions preserved by different iwi and hapū. It is most comonly known today as Te Kurī a Pāoa/Te Kurī a Pawa ("The Dog of Pāoa" or Pawa), although Te Kurī, and Te Kurī o Whata were names also used traditionally)
According to one tradition, Pawa (Pāoa) lost his kurī (dog) while travelling along the coast. From the summit of the cliffs he recognised the likeness of his dog in the reefs below, which thereafter became known as Te Kurī a Pāoa. A Ngāti Porou tradition, recorded by Colonel Thomas William Porter, states that the dog was killed by mākutu (sorcery) and transformed into the headland itself. The reefs below the cliffs were also remembered as an important taunga ika (shark fishing ground), while the cliffs themselves are known as Ngā Pari mā mai ra (White cliffs over there), and was named by Kiwa
The origins of the name were already debated during the nineteenth century. An 1865 manuscript attributed to a Ngāti Porou author records that while some authorities maintained the dog belonged to Pāoa, others believed it belonged to Tarawhata and other origins all together. These differing accounts demonstrate that no single explanation was universally accepted among tribal traditions.
Te Kurī was centuries later the first land sighted by the crew of Captain James Cook's ship, Endeavour, dated on Friday, 6 October 1769. Cook promised a reward to the first crewman to sight land and this reward was delivered to 12-year-old Nicholas Young, assistant to the ship's surgeon, in the form of two gallons of rum and the name of a prominent landmark for their own maps.
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