Honiana Te Puni-kokopu

Detail of a poupou by Rangi Hetet hanging in the Dowse Art Museum. One of a pair of poupou commissioned by the museum on their fifth anniversary in 1975. The poupou are carved wooden figures with inset pāua shell eyes. This figure represents Te Puni.

Honiana Te Puni-kokopu (?–1870) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader and government adviser. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Te Ati Awa iwi. He was born in Taranaki, New Zealand.^[1] The Lower Hutt suburb of Epuni is named after him.

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