Arawa (canoe)
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Arawa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori traditions that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The Te Arawa confederation of Māori iwi and hapū based around the
Te Aurere, a modern reconstruction of a sea-going waka (canoe).
Pōhutukawa trees in flower
Kennett Watkin's 1912 painting, The Legend of the Voyage to New Zealand, depicts the landfall of migratory canoes, including the Arawa, at Whangaparāoa
Centennial monument, Maketu.
Māori migration canoes
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Māori oral histories recount how their ancestors sailed from their homeland to New Zealand in ocean-going canoes. Some of these traditions name a homeland called Hawaiki. The canoes were probably twin
Arawa (canoe)
…Arawa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori traditions that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The Te Arawa confederation of Māori iwi and hapū based around the Rotorua…
Departure of the Six Canoes from Raratonga for New Zealand, AD1350, a 1906 painting by Kennett Watkins depicting the imagined Great Fleet leaving Rarotonga in 1350
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