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Kōrero: Whanganui region

Te Mata o Hoturoa

<em>Te Mata o Hoturoa</em>

This impressive war canoe, Te Mata o Hoturoa, is displayed at Whanganui Regional Museum. The tōtara hull came from a tree near the confluence of the Whanganui and Whakapapa rivers, and was built by 1810. Later owned by Hoani Wiremu Hīpango and his people at Pūtiki, the canoe was gifted to the museum in 1924. It was subsequently rebuilt extensively.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Whanganui Regional Museum

Reference: LMA 006

by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon

Permission of the Whanganui Regional Museum must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui region – Buildings and heritage, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19086/te-mata-o-hoturoa (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Diana Beaglehole, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009, updated 1 June 2015.

Comments

Lois Tutemahurangi
26 May 2022
This waka was adzed on the kainga named Ngararahuarau (Ohura South Block B2B2C2. Pukehou) The whenua in which this kainga sits was gifted by the Chief of Ngati Haaua called Whakaneke to a women named Tuwhatiara when she became a wife of Te Tarapounamu, who was the son of Manunui the eponymous tupuna of Ngati Manunui, a hapu of Ngati Tuwharetoa Iwi. Whakaneke was the Grandfather of the renowned chief Topine Te Mamaku of Ngati Haaua.