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    Waka (Māori: [ˈwaka]) are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes (waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel...
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  • This is a list of Māori waka (canoes). The information in this list represents a compilation of different oral traditions from around New Zealand. These...
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    ancestors of the iwi that form the Tainui confederation. The Tainui waka (canoe) was made from a great tree, at a place in Hawaiki known then as Maungaroa...
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  • Ngāhue of the Tāwhirirangi canoe. A large tree was cut down by four men called Rata, Wahieroa, Ngāhue and Parata, to make the waka which came to be known...
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  • Look up waka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Waka may refer to: Waka (canoe), a Polynesian word for canoe; especially, canoes of the Māori of New...
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    whakapapa (genealogy) back to people who arrived in New Zealand on the waka (canoe) Tainui. The 2018 New Zealand census reports show an estimated population...
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  • Tākitimu (category Māori waka)
    Tākitimu was a waka (canoe) with whakapapa throughout the Pacific particularly with Samoa, the Cook Islands, and New Zealand in ancient times. In several...
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    parts lashed together with flax rope. All waka are characterized by very low freeboard. In Hawaiʻi, waʻa (canoes) are traditionally manufactured from the...
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    Polynesian multihull terminology (category Outrigger canoes)
    term vaka or waka means "boat" or "canoe" in most Polynesian languages. It comes from Proto-Austronesian *abaŋ, meaning "ship" or "canoe". Cognates in...
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    back canoe with a small outboard motor Umiak Outrigger Waka (canoe) Adirondack guideboat – resembles a canoe Canoe paddle strokes Canadian Canoe Museum...
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