Tainui

thumb|350px|The korupe (carving over the window frame) at Mahina-a-Rangi meeting house at Turangawaewae Marae, [[Ngāruawāhia showing the Tainui canoe with its captain Hoturoa. Above the canoe is Te Hoe-o-Tainui, a famous paddle, the kete (basket) given to Whakaotirangi by a tohunga of Hawaiki, the bird Parakaraka (front) who was able to see in the dark, and another bird who warned of approaching daylight. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber circa 1930s]] Tainui is a tribal waka confederation of New Zealand Māori iwi. The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Māori iwi of the cent