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Taonui Hikaka lived on the upper Mokau River. He was probably
born at Paripari (near present day Te Kuiti) in the early 1840s.
His father was also named Taonui Hikaka (also known as Hikaka) of
Ngāti Rora, a hapu of Ngāti
Maniapoto. His mother may have been Niapo of Ngati Hia, who, along
with Taonui senior, was part of a group portrait painted by George
French Angas in 1844. Taonui is believed to have had four brothers,
Te Kuri (Ngaturi), Tanirau, Te Naunau Hikaka and Tautau; and a
sister, Paeata Mihinoa, who married the French trader Louis
Hetet.1
Taonui Hikaka was survived by his wife, whose name is not
remembered, and they didn't have any children. It is thought he was
aged about 50 years at the time of his death.2 Wi Parata of Ngāti Toa and his
people travelled to the tangihanga from Porirua. Ngāti Toa
people had kinship ties with the Ngāti Roroa people and Taonui
Hikaka was considered the chief of that tribe.3
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