Tama-te-kapua
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In Māori tradition of New Zealand, Tama-te-kapua, also spelt Tamatekapua and Tama-te-Kapua and also known as Tama, was the captain of the Arawa canoe which came to New Zealand from Polynesia in about
Tama-te-kapua, depicted in a carving at Tamatekapua meeting house in Ohinemutu, Rotorua, circa 1880. Tama-te-kapua is holding the stilts he used to steal fruit from Uenuku.
Te Haunui, a modern reconstruction of a sea-going waka (canoe).
Maketu, seen from the west.
Mount Moehau, seen from the southwest.
Ngātoro-i-rangi
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In Māori tradition, Ngātoro-i-rangi is the name of a tohunga prominent during the settling of New Zealand by the Māori people, who came from the traditional homeland Hawaiki on the Arawa canoe. He is
Depiction of Ngātoro-i-rangi at Mine Bay, created in the late 1970s by Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell and John Randall.
