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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 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.
Tereanini was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand in Māori tradition. [1]Ngāti Porou traces its heritage back to Tereanini and a number of other waka.
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 ...
Great Māori migration waka In Māori tradition , Nuku-tai-memeha was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
In Māori tradition, Māmari was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. Māmari was the third waka to arrive with the tangata Ruanui. The traditions of the Aotea , Horotua and Māmari waka mention that kiore (rats) were passengers on their voyages to New Zealand.
Great Māori migration waka In Māori tradition , Te Wakaringaringa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand . Ngāti Ruanui and Ngā Rauru iwi link their ancestry to Māwakeroa , the captain of Te Wakaringaringa .