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tohunga
/ ˈtɒhʊŋə; tɒˈhʊŋə /
noun
- a MÄori priest, the repository of traditional lore
Example Sentences
Thoughts of a Tohunga was painted nine years before Goldie died in 1947, with art critics believing it was his best work.
“It’s pretty special what Jacinda is able to do; she really blends that leadership quality you need with being relatable, kind and down to earth. She’s relatable for common people,†says Tohunga Riwai, 21, a politics major.
Nobody breathed during the screening, they were very moved, there were a lot of tears, and at the end, in their rituals there is a tohunga, the most sacred man, and he got up and talked about the film, saying it was the first time they had seen their own history on screen.
Well, after this, the Governor died; he was bewitched, as I have heard, by a tohunga at the South, where he had gone to get names to his paper; for this was his chief delight, to get plenty of names and marks on his paper.
The fugitives had fairly escaped; and what the relations wanted was that the atua, or familiar spirit of the tohunga, should bring the ship back into port, so that they might have an opportunity to recover the lost ornament of the family.
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