Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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5 | Sheet 3 — The Waikato-Manukau Sheet | Kukutai | Kūkūtai | Waikato | Ngāti Tipā | Waikato Heads Late March or early April 1840 |
Kūkūtai signed the Waikato-Manukau sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi in late March or early April 1840 at Waikato Heads. He was a rangatira (chief) of Ngāti Tipā. His son Waata Pihikete Kūkūtai moved the tribe to Te Kōhanga to live with the Anglican missionary Robert Maunsell in 1853. Kūkūtai’s wife, the mother of Waata Kūkūtai, was named Oeroa.
Kūkūtai lived in Raglan for a time after he had led Ngāti Tipā to help Wiremu Nēra Te Awa-i-taia of Ngāti Māhanga force Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha out of Kāwhia in the early 1820s.
After Kūkūtai was killed in an inter-hapū battle at Ihutaroa on the Waikato River in 1846, Waata Kūkūtai took over the leadership of Ngāti Tipā.
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