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
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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Māori migration canoes
…from their homeland to New Zealand in ocean-going canoes (waka). Some of these traditions name a homeland called Hawaiki. The canoes were probably twin-hulled canoes (waka hourua) or large outrigger canoes. Among the legends is the story of Kupe, who had eloped with Kūrāmarotini, the wife of Hoturapa, the…
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