In Māori tradition of New Zealand, Tama-te-kapua, also spelt Tamatekapua and Tama-te-Kapua and also known as Tama, was the captain of the Arawa canoe which came to New Zealand from Polynesia in about 1350. Tama-te-kapua was said to be very tall – 2.7 metres (9 ft) – and the son of (also spelt Houmai Tawhiti) of Hawaiki, the ancestral home of the Polynesian people. Tama-te-kapua had two sons, Tuhoro and Kahu-mata-momoe. He was buried at the top of Mount Moehau (on Cape Colville, the northernmost tip of Coromandel Peninsula). The meeting house at Te Papaiouru Marae is named after Tamatekapua.