Hinekaukia was a high-born woman of Ngāti Porou tribe on the East Coast and was grandmother of Rapata Wahawaha.
Biographical sources
- Nga Moteatea (The Songs) A Selection of Annotated Tribal Songs of the Māori with English Translations. Comp. Sir Apirana Ngata. Pt. 1. 1928. Rpt. Polynesian Soc. 1959. Facsim. ed. 1972 (with the addition of Sir Apirana Ngata’s draft introduction of 1949 and a page of errata to 1959 edition, supplied by Mr Pei Te Hurinui Jones). Rpt. 1974. Rpt. Auckland, N.Z.: Polynesian Soc., 1988. 134-135.
- Māori Poetry: An Introductory Anthology. Ed. Margaret Orbell. Auckland, N.Z.: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978. 90.
Traditional
- "He Tangi Mo Tana Tamaiti/Lament For Her Son." Nga Moteatea (The Songs) A Selection of Annotated Tribal Songs of the Māori with English Translations. Comp. Sir Apirana Ngata. Pt. 1. 1928. Rpt. Polynesian Soc. 1959. Facsim. ed. 1972 (with the addition of Sir Apirana Ngata’s draft introduction of 1949 and a page of errata to 1959 edition, supplied by Mr Pei Te Hurinui Jones). Rpt. 1974. Rpt. Auckland, N.Z.: Polynesian Soc., 1988. 134-135. [Including notes]. Rpt. in Māori Poetry: An Introductory Anthology. Ed. Margaret Orbell. Auckland, N.Z.: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978. 40-41.
- Margaret Orbell notes: "Her lament was probably composed in about the 1780s" (90).