| She explains that the tohunga of old practiced in the best interests of Maori and cared for their spiritual needs. |
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| I cannot be emphatic enough in condemning these tohunga, for I have seen the result of their work. |
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| It can be placed anonymously and is usually invoked by a tohunga, an expert practitioner, who can also lift it. |
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| When a sick person died, the tohunga would blame it on the patient, saying they had breached tapu or had committed a spiritual transgression. |
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| Artisans such as tattoo artists, canoe builders, house builders, and carvers were all classified as tohunga in Maori. |
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| For a while, things were calm, until the paramount chief and tohunga began a new campaign. |
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| Based on a real story from 1937, the drama is about an ambitious teacher who seeks to awaken his spiritual prowess through visiting a tohunga. |
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| We must festoon the forests with these stones and bring in armies of tohunga to protect the pigeons with chants. |
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| In the days gone by, people like her mother would be trained as tohunga and their gifts developed. |
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| Whenever the Department of Conservation translocates birds and other species, whenever it opens a new facility, there are karakia from tohunga and ministers. |
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| Historically, only tohunga were allowed to live on the mountain. |
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| The arrival of Europeans from the late eighteenth century undermined the power of both chief and tohunga. |
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