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Uruaokapuarangi (also Te Waka a Rangi; [1] often known simply as Uruao) was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled the South Island according to Māori tradition. Uruaokapuarangi is linked to many southern iwi, first landing near Nelson.
The Haunui, a replica ocean-going waka Some waka, particularly in the Chatham Islands , were not conventional canoes, but were constructed from raupō ( bulrushes ) or flax stalks. In 2009, the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea and Salthouse Boatbuilders built a fleet of vaka moana / waka hourua with fibreglass hulls. [ 25 ]
This is a list of Māori waka (canoes). The information in this list represents a compilation of different oral traditions from around New Zealand. These accounts give several different uses for the waka: many carried Polynesian migrants and explorers from Hawaiki to New Zealand; others brought supplies or made return journeys to Hawaiki; Te Rīrino was said to be lost at sea.
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Te Aurere, a modern reconstruction of a sea-going waka (canoe). A large tree was cut down by four men called Rata, Wahieroa, Ngāhue and Parata, to make the waka which came to be known as Arawa. "Hauhau-te-rangi" and "Tūtauru" (made from New Zealand greenstone brought back by Ngāhue) were the adzes used for the time-consuming and intensive ...
Māori oral histories recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in waka hourua, large twin-hulled ocean-going canoes . Some of these traditions name a homeland called Hawaiki . Among these is the story of Kupe , who had eloped with Kūrāmarotini , the wife of Hoturapa , the owner of the great canoe Matahourua , whom Kupe had ...
In Māori tradition, Ngātokimatawhaorua (or Matawhaorua) was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. Matawhaorua was the canoe of Kupe, the Polynesian discoverer of the islands now known as New Zealand.
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