Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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96 | Sheet 1 — The Waitangi Sheet | E Paka | Paka | Ngāpuhi? | Ngāti Korokoro? | Mangungu 12 February 1840 |
Paka signed the Waitangi sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi on 12 February 1840 at Mangungu in Hokianga. He may have been a rangatira (chief) of the Ngāti Korokoro hapū (subtribe) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe).
Paka may have been the son of Tāhuhunui-o-rangi and Whāiti, and the father of Hākiro by his wife Hinepapa.
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