Most of the carvers who worked on Rāhiri marae, completed in 1914, came from Ngāti Porou from the East Coast. Above each window is a canoe, one marked ‘Matatua’ in recognition of the Mataatua canoe, and the other marked ‘Matawhaorua’. These two canoes are of major importance to the local people.
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