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Kōrero: Waka – canoes

Waka ama

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Outrigger canoes

He waka ama tēnei. I whanake tēnei waka ki Te Moananui-a-Kiwa, i te tāpiritanga atu o tētahi kōrewa ki te waka tīwai.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Rex Nan Kivell Collection

Reference: 1/2-056342; F

Permission of the National Library of Australia 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

Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr, Waka – canoes – Pacific origins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5985/waka-ama (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.