patupaiarehen.

1872 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia 118 To be as best he might, moreover, That Patu-paere's pet and lover!

1889 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1888 21 32 In those good old times the interior was occupied, they say, by Turehu or Patupaiarehe, a race short in stature and of fair skin.

1936 T. Lambert Pioneering Reminisc. Old Wairoa 58 Even to-day the Tuhoe folk speak of..a smaller, much more gentle, and fair-skinned people called the ‘Patu-pai-arehe,’ or the fairy people.

1974 J. H. Henderson Open Country Muster 213 It led to tiny waterfall, as if this were the goal of the patupaiarehe.

2000 Nelson Mail (N.Z.) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 1 The seventh sculpture is by Russian artist Yuri Teryni, who is portraying a patupaiarehe, or fairy, playing music to maidens.