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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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 .
Mana Waka is a 1990 New Zealand film documenting the construction of waka for the 1940 centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi. It uses footage shot between 1937 and 1940 by R.G.H Manley, and edited 50 years later by Annie Collins and director Merata Mita .
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 ...