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Kaingapipi Kainga, Manawatu

Kete Horowhenua2020-03-23T16:57:19+00:00
Kainga-pipi kainga. A former native village on the right bank of the Manawatu River situated in the same meander of the Tuwhakatupua multiple loop as Iwi-te-kai kainga.

The name is shown on J. T. Stewart's survey of 1858 (Ref. Map E) which is the only source of information of this place.

It shows that this Kainga-pipi village lay about 30 chains upstream from Iwi-te-kai on the raised silt bank of the river, and was backed on the east by an isolated area of tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa) bush.

The place apparently got its name from conspicuous 'refuse-heaps of pipi shells' adjacent to the settlement, the pipi in this case probably being the fresh-water species called kakai (Hyridella Menziesi var.- formerly Diplodon lutulentus).