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Kōrero: Canoe traditions

Te punga a Kupe

Kupe’s anchor

Koinei te punga o Mātāwhaorua, te waka o Kupe, te kaihōpara nui o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa. Kei Te Papa Tongarewa te taonga nei i tēnei wā. I whakapono ngā tāngata o mua, nā Kupe te motu nei i tūhura i te tau 925 AD. Engari, e ai ki ngā rangahau Pākehā o ēnei rā, nō te takiwā o te rau tau 1200 i tau mai ai te tangata ki tēnei whenua..

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: ME015920

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rāwiri Taonui, Canoe traditions – The meaning of canoe traditions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2295/te-punga-a-kupe (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rāwiri Taonui, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009.

Comments

Rawiri Moetara
22 July 2013
The story about Ngatokimatawhaorua and Mamari is wrong as is the Waka was called Matawhaorua adjusted by the son of Kupe renamed to Tokimatawhaorua. After the Paihia crowd saw a money making chance built a replica. then the name Ngatokimatwhaorua came about. Both are buried where they landed.