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Story: Waka – canoes

Waka tīwai

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Waka tīwai

The waka tīwai was a simple hollowed-out log. This group sit on a flat waka tīwai, on the Ruamāhanga River in Wairarapa.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Henry Charles Clarke Wright Collection (PAColl-5032)

Reference: 1/1-20439; G

by Henry Wright

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Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr, Waka – canoes – Other types of waka, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6012/waka-tiwai (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr, published 2 March 2009.