Here’s another thing that I have pondered too: Why is the inside of the hole made to receive the coffin shaped? And then a gap is left for boards or similar to lay on top so that the earth doesn’t actually fall directly onto the coffin lid?
We, Te Aupouri have prided ourselves on the neatness and certainly from visitors, their comments on the unusual yet ‘warmness’ of our method of interment.
When did Te Aupouri start doing this?
Who was the first Aupouri to have been buried like this?
Why do we do it?
Who outside of Te Aupouri (other tribe) has been interred in this manner?
What prompted that person to want a burial like ours?
Ngā mihi
Kingi Ihaka
