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The term ama is a word in the Polynesian and Micronesian languages to describe the outrigger part of a canoe to provide stability. Today, among the various Polynesian countries, the word ama is often used together with the word vaka (Cook Islands) or waka or va'a (Samoa Islands, Tahiti), cognate words in various Polynesian languages to describe a canoe.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Removing the noun article te, the original meaning of puke, as reconstructed for the ancestor Proto-Polynesian is “bow and stern decking on a canoe”. [1] By metonymy, the name of that deck has become used for the ship as a whole. (The Proto-Polynesian root for “boat” or “canoe” is *waka.) [2]
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 ...
Timber was formed into houses, fencepoles, pouwhenua, containers, taiaha, tool handles and waka (canoe). Carving tools were made from stone, preferably the very hard pounamu (greenstone). Bone was used for fish hooks and needles amongst other things.
Waka (canoe) Te Arawa Ngāti Whakaue is a Māori iwi , of the Te Arawa confederation of New Zealand , tracing its descent from Whakaue Kaipapa , son of Uenuku-kopakō, and grandson of Tūhourangi .