Hau Haun.

1865 J. C. Richmond Let. 28 July in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 171 The excitement among the Hau-hau and other hostile natives was reviving.

1871 C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. x. 137 A large village..said to be a nest of Hau-haus.

1884 M. A. Martin Our Maoris xi. 169 Early in 1865 came the terrible news from the East Cape, of the Rev. Carl Volkner's murder by the fanatical Hauhaus there.

1884 M. A. Martin Our Maoris xi. 173 He proclaimed a new religion, though indeed it was a mixture of wild applications of Old Testament history with spells and incantations. A pole was set up in the pah, round which the people danced. They drew in their breaths all at once, somewhat in the way paviours used to do. This deep groan at the end of each sentence, ‘Hau’, gave a name to the fanatical movement which lasts to this day.]

1930 J. Cowan in J. Reid Kiwi Laughs (1961) 97 They would have had his head to decorate the end of a Hauhau pole had they discovered the particular potato-pit in which he was hiding.

1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) iv. iii. 474 Possession was practised by the fanatical followers of the late post~European sect known as hauhau, when dancing around a pole termed the niu.

1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 237 The great-grandfather was eaten in the latter stage of the Maori wars by the Hau Hau, that fanatic group which combined Christianity and cannibalism with apparent success.

1875 Official Handbk. N.Z. (ed. 2) 28/2 Many who eagerly adopted Hau-hauism at first, have since given it up.

1914 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 173/2 In religion he follows ‘Hau-hauism’, a strange intermingling of ideas, based largely on the Old Testament.