Māhanga (original) (raw)

Māhanga was a Maori rangatira (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation in the Waikato region of New Zealand, based at Kāniwhaniwha on the Waipā River, and an ancestor of the Ngāti Māhanga and Ngāti Tamainupō hapu. Brice Briggs estimates that he lived around 1600.