Ana Hamu was a Māori woman of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) in northern New Zealand. She was a woman of high rank. Hamu was closely related to Eruera Maihi Patuone.[1]
Hamu was baptised on 5 October 1834 by the Revd. Henry Williams and adopted the name Ana.[2]
Hamu was the widow of Te Koki,[3][4] a chief of Te Uri-o-Ngongo Hapū. They had at least two children together, Te Ahara and Rangituke. She later became the wife of the chief Pukututu.[5]
Te Koki and Hamu gave the Church Missionary Society (CMS) permission to occupy land at Paihia.[6][3][4]
Hamu gave her signature to the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840, and was one of only a few women to sign the treaty.[2]
She was connected with the CMS Girls' School in Paihia, where she kept the Māori children within bounds by her presence.[7]
She was believed to be approximately 60 years old when she died in 1848.[7]
References
edit- ^ Pre-publication version of part 1 of Tino Rangatiratanga me te Kāwanatanga: The Report on Stage 2 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry – the second volume of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki (Northland) district inquiry report (Wai 1040) (Report). Waitangi Tribunal. 2022. p. 548. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Ana Hamu". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- ^ a b Rogers, Lawrence M. (1973). Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams. Pegasus Press. p. 55.
- ^ a b Fitzgerald, Caroline (2011). Te Wiremu: Henry Williams – Early Years in the North. Huia Publishers, New Zealand. pp. 25, 39–40. ISBN 978-1-86969-439-5.
- ^ Pre-publication version of part 1 of Tino Rangatiratanga me te Kāwanatanga: The Report on Stage 2 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry – the second volume of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki (Northland) district inquiry report (Wai 1040) (Report). Waitangi Tribunal. 2022. p. 617. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Caroline (2004). Marianne Williams: Letters from the Bay of Islands. Penguin Books, New Zealand. p. 62. ISBN 0-14-301929-5.
- ^ a b "The Missionary Register". Early New Zealand Books (ENZB), University of Auckland Library. 1848. p. 369. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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