kainga

Others ran to the cooking hangis, and with burning sticks from the ovens set fire to some of the thatched houses in the kainga.

To blunder on the wrong wharé would only serve to arouse the kainga.

It was clear that the first thing to be done was to get the natives to come back to their kainga; but how?

The father was the principal chief of the kainga, and, as it turned out, cousin to Bent's rangatira Tito.