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2. Waka (canoe) - Wikipedia

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   Waka taua (in Māori, waka means "canoe" and taua means "army" or "war party") are large canoes manned by up to 80 paddlers and are up to 40 metres (130 ft) [4] in length. Large waka, such as Ngā Toki Matawhaorua [ 5 ] which are usually elaborately carved and decorated, consist of a main hull formed from a single hollowed-out log, along with a ...

3. List of Māori waka - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Āraiteuru - Wikipedia

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   Āraiteuru (also written Ārai-te-uru) was a canoe of some of Ngāi Tahu's ancestors in Māori tradition. The canoe was conveyed to New Zealand by the north-east wind, [ 1 ] : 178 carrying the chiefs Kirikirikatata, Aroarokaehe, Mauka Atua, [ 2 ] [ a ] Aoraki , [ 3 ] Kakeroa, Te Horokoatu, Ritua, Ngamautaurua, Pokohiwitahi, Puketapu, Te Maro ...

5. Māori migration canoes - Wikipedia

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   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 murdered.

6. Tainui (canoe) - Wikipedia

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   The korupe (carving over the window frame) at Mahina-a-Rangi meeting house at Turangawaewae Marae, Ngāruawāhia showing the Tainui canoe with its captain Hoturoa.Above the canoe is Te Hoe-o-Tainui, a famous paddle, the kete (basket) given to Whakaotirangi by a tohunga of Hawaiki, the bird Parakaraka (front) who was able to see in the dark, and another bird who warned of approaching daylight. [1]

7. Ngā Toki Matawhaorua - Wikipedia

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   Ngā Toki in its whare waka at Waitangi Ngā Toki Matawhaorua of Pewhairangi , often simply known as Ngā Toki , is the name of a New Zealand waka taua (large, ornately carved Māori war canoe). It is named after Matawhaorua , the canoe of Kupe , the Polynesian discoverer of the islands now known as New Zealand; Kupe's canoe was later re-adzed ...

8. Arawa (canoe) - Wikipedia

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   The waka was completed and berthed in Whenuakura Bay while Tama-te-kapua, chief of the canoe, attempted to find a priest for the journey. Ngātoro-i-rangi and his wife Kearoa were tricked by Tama-te-kapua into boarding the canoe to perform the necessary appeasement incantations to the gods before the canoe departed. However, while they were on ...

9. Kāraerae - Wikipedia

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   Kāraerae was a great migratory waka (canoe) used by early Polynesian settlers in New Zealand according to Māori tradition, in which it is said that after Tamatea-arikinui wrecked the Tākitimu at Te Waewae Bay in Southland, he built the Kāraerae and sailed back to the North Island.