Tohunga
Expert practitioner in Māori culture / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, a tohunga (tōhuka in Southern Māori dialect) is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise.[1] Tohunga include expert priests, healers, navigators, carvers, builders, teachers and advisors. A tohunga may have also been the head of a whānau (family) but quite often was also a rangatira (chief) and an ariki (noble).[2] The equivalent and cognate in Hawaiian culture is kahuna, tahu'a in Tahitian.