They wrapped the mutilated corpse in his red blanket, and bore it, lashed to a tree, to the village, where the usual tangi took place after it had been deposited in the wahi tapu, or sacred ground.
The tangi had terminated; the umu or `cooking holes' were smoking away for the feast.
They wrapped the mutilated corpse in his red blanket, and bore it, lashed to a tree, to the village, where the usual tangi took place.
Perhaps some old woman did a quiet tangi over his grave.
Tis the tangi floats on the seaborne breeze, In its echoing notes of wild despair.
That is to say, most young Maori of the period do not tangi unless they are really affected with the emotion of grief, although they do not seem to have lost the power of weeping at will.
A tangi (weeping) can be performed by any Maori at a moment's notice.
Partings are effected in the same way; and on all occasions where grief is really felt, or where it is considered necessary or in accordance with etiquette to put on the semblance of grief, a tangi takes place.
Though they are a cheerful and laughter-loving people, they make the tangi a frequent ceremony.
A party of his Maori friends arrived at his farm, and held there a sort of combined tangi and prayer-meeting.
These could give us but a short tangi (reception ceremony), as the war was hot in the land and the people much engaged in fighting; but they gave us the Orakau Pah to dwell in, until such time as the runanga could be held.
We soon reached Wai-Tangi, and I was carried up to my hut, all the Maoris holding a big tangi (weeping match) over my accident and blaming themselves for the misadventure that had happened to their guest.
Afterwards the Beju shoots one or two balls at the buffalo, which is taken to a path forming the village boundary, and killed with a tangi (axe).
As soon as the contracting couple come before the house, a tall man cuts the gourd with his tangi (axe) and it falls to the ground.
The bereaved man charged him with being a fraud, and, in the course of a quarrel, split his skull open with a tangi (axe).
Sir Bindon Blood encamped the two brigades on Thursday, the 6th of January, at the mouth of the Tangi Pass.
They burned the village of Shahi-Tangi most completely, in spite of all opposition, and they inflicted on the tribesmen a loss of over 200 men.
The 35th Sikhs proceeded towards the long ridge, round the corner of which Shahi-Tangi stands.
While both these regiments were hurrying to the scene, the sound of loud firing first made us realise that our position at the head of the spur near Shahi-Tangi was one of increasing danger.
On the 22nd and 23rd the villages of Dag and Tangi were respectively captured and destroyed, but as the resistance was slight and the operations were unmarked by any new features, I shall not weary the reader by further description.
Mountain Battery and the squadron of the 11th Bengal Lancers, was ordered to proceed to the head of the valley, and destroy the villages of Badelai and Shahi-Tangi (pronounced Shytungy).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tangi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
