Nawao
Also known as: Mū, Tūrehu related complexes
Basic account
Wild people of early Aotearoa tradition: forest dwellers of great strength.
Account
The Nawao are described in some Māori traditions as a wild, strong people of the interior forests: sometimes framed as an earlier group overcome or absorbed in ancestral history. Accounts vary, and colonial-era writing distorted them badly.
Motifs
- The people who came before
- Flattened by outsiders
- The wild one of the uplands
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Sources
- Māori oral tradition (varies by iwi; not a single canonical account)
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