Diagram of the Te Aurere built by Hekenukumai Busby in 1991–1992. This was New Zealand’s first waka hourua.
Puzzling out Pacific migrations explores possible reasons for the long pause between two phases of migration across the Pacific. It ...
The ancient craft that carried the first settlers to New Zealand were probably double-hulled – rather like two canoes side ...
Waka is the Māori word for canoe. Māori ancestors were great canoe builders, navigators and sailors. Thousands of years ago, ...
This Connected article recounts an important story from the oral tradition of Tainui. It tells of how the iwi’s ancestor ...
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