She is “sister of Te Momo-a-Irawara, killed at Kahotea, near Te Roto-a-Tara by the war-party of Nga-Puhi, under Te Wera.”
Biographical sources
- "Nga Mahi A Te Wera, Me Nga-Puhi hoki, Ki Te Tai-Rawhiti (Te roanga)/The Doings of Te Wera and Nga-Puhi On the East Coast. (Continued)" By Takaanui Tarakawa. Trans. S. Percy Smith. Journal of the Polynesian Society 9.35 (1900): 135-141.
Traditional
- "He Tangi Amuamu/A Regretful Lament." In ‘Nga Mahi A Te Wera, Me Nga-Puhi hoki, Ki Te Tai-Rawhiti (Te roanga)/The Doings of Te Wera and Nga-Puhi On the East Coast. (Continued)’ Takaanui Tarakawa. English Trans. S. Percy Smith. Journal of the Polynesian Society 9.35 (1900): 135-141.
- Tarakawa states that Humai composed this lament on the occasion of the death of Te Momo-a-Irawara who was ‘killed at Kahotea, near Te Roto-a-Tara by the war-party of Nga-Puhi, under Te Wera.’