The house was a little wooden cottage, built outside the enclosed kainga of raupo wharè, or reed-grass cabins, of the rest of the tribe.
In the seclusion of their own kainga they frequently lay aside civilized attire, and are seen either quite naked, or only loosely enveloped in a dirty blanket; but elsewhere they usually wear shirt and trousers, much the same as settlers.
Sometimes a powerful chief was dominant over a large confederation; and, again, each little kainga regarded itself as independent.
He held prayers morning and evening in front of his wharè, at which all the people of the kainga attended.
The girls went back to theirkainga after a time, and, after the wont of their race, made no secret of anything that had occurred.
I went to the kainga in the evening, as unobtrusively as possible, to see how the feasting was conducted.
There would seem to have been a considerable kainga either at or near Te Puna.
Then there was a kind of wooden statuary, which was set up in kainga and wahi-tapu; and there were picture-writings cut upon rocks and trees.
Most of the houses are, of course, the usual raupo wharès, but there are carpentered frame-houses in the kainga as well.
The kainga lies embosomed in orchards of peach and pear, cherry and almond, and extensive cultivations and grass-paddocks surround it.
Sometimes it is very festive, for a large Maori kainga is not far off; and at Te Otamatea a race-course has been made, where the annual races of the Kaipara districts are held.
Tanoa is a large kainga on the Otamatea river, and lies about sixteen miles across the bush from our farm, or somewhat more by the water-road.
A few yards below the kainga is the beach, where a capital boat shows that Tama prefers Pakeha workmanship to the native article--a canoe that also lies near.
At nightfall the old man, my grandfather, rowed back to the little kainga our people have made on the bank of the river.
They were long in getting as far as the ravine where the tinykainga nestled.
Ko tena kua hohoro te horoi, let that be first washed; kua tahu te kai o te kainga nei, the food of the settlement has been kindled, i.
Hei kainga mou, as a farm for you (or land to reside upon).
E kore e roko kainga kua ruaki, he vomits immediately, as soon as he has eaten (it).
Thus, in the following sentence, nau i kai nga kai kihai nei i tika kia kainga e te mea noa, we should prefer kahore nei i to denote which WAS not, and IS not, lawful to be eaten by a person not tapu.
Ka riro to kotiro ki tekainga maori, your servant girl will go to the native place.
Kua kainga e koutou ko te kura, it has been eaten by you the school.
We steamed on slowly towards Tawhitinui, a smallkainga or kaik, as it is called in the South island.
A cosy-looking kainga located on the bank of a picturesque bend of the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kainga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
