Tin Kettle Hut
The place
Tin Kettle Hut in the Ruahine Forest Park, Waipawa/Norsewood sector (Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand), at 1117 m elevation, Ruahine Range. Continuous Ruahine cluster (batches 231-358). Historic DOC hut ("Tin Kettle" a rustic name from 1900s musterers), area with Nothofagus solandri black beech + Chionochloa rubra red tussock + heritage of Ngāti Kahungunu (2nd largest iwi, 82,000 people, East Coast + 2007 Waitangi Treaty settlement NZ$100 M + tikanga cultural concepts, marae community, hui gathering, whakapapa genealogy, collective identity) + Norsewood, Norwegian colony founded 1872, 300 families, Wairoa bogland drainage + Manawatū forest.
The setting
Ruahine FP Waipawa/Norsewood Hawke's Bay NZ 1117 m Ruahine, continuous cluster batches 231-358, DOC Tin Kettle rustic name 1900s musterers, Nothofagus solandri + Chionochloa rubra, Ngāti Kahungunu 2nd largest iwi 82,000 East Coast + 2007 Waitangi settlement NZ$100 M + tikanga marae hui whakapapa collective identity + Norsewood Norwegian 1872 300 families bogland Wairoa drainage.
