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hapu N.Z.|ˈhɑːpuː|
Also (erron.) harpu.
[Maori.]
A clan, sub-tribe, or small community.
1843E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. iii. ix. 361/2 Hapu—tribe, family. 1857C. F. Hursthouse New Zealand I. 162 The 70,000 semi-civilized natives now in New Zealand are divided into some dozen chief tribes, and into numerous sub-tribes and ‘Harpu’. 1873Jrnls. Ho. Reps. N.Z. III. App. G. vii. 87 (Morris), Were not all your hapu present when the money was paid? 1891Rep. Australas. Assoc. Adv. Sci. III. G. 378 (Morris), Tribes or nations, each of which was divided into hapus, and the hapus into families. 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira viii. 52 In sympathy with this hapu or sub-tribe and its old⁓world ways. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) iii. i. 333 To denote the groupings in English, the iwi has been termed tribe and the hapu a sub-tribe. 1960N. Hilliard in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 241 He's East Coast, he don't know the hapus up our way. |