Ngai-Te-Rangi Challenge Shield This shield has been presented by the Minister of Tourism and Publicity for competition in the intermediate section of the annual competitions at Tauranga. The two figures on the shield are sea monsters called marakihau. They have human bodies, fishes' tails, and long tubular tongues for sucking in fish. These figures often represent a local Tauranga ancestor named Te-Tahi-o-Te-Rangi, a tohuniw who was marooned on White Island by his tribe. By powerful incantations he was able National Publicity Studies to call a whale to his assistance, and he travelled to the mainland on its back. After his death he was said to have become a sea monster. The band of kowhaiwhai is a Ngai-Te-Rangi pattern copied from Te Whetu meeting house.
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Te Ao Hou, December 1968, Page 38
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