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Waka (canoe), the Glossary

Waka are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes (waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel to large, decorated war canoes (waka taua) up to long.^[1]

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Adze

An adze or adz is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel.

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Anaweka River

The Anaweka River is small river in a remote area of the Tasman District of New Zealand.

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Angela Ballara

Heather Angela Ballara (née Devitt; 16 August 1944 – 17 September 2021) was a New Zealand historian who specialised in Māori history.

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Canoe

A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.

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The Chatham Islands (Moriori: Rēkohu, 'Misty Sun'; Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island, administered as part of New Zealand, and consisting of about 10 islands within an approximate radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island (''Rangiauria'').

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Chundan vallam

Chundan vallam ('beaked boat'), known outside Kerala as Kerala snake boats, are one of the icons of Kerala culture used in the Vallamkali or boat race.

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Cognate

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.

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Cook Strait

Cook Strait (Te Moana-o-Raukawa) is a strait that separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

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Cordyline

Cordyline is a genus of about 24 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae.

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David Sims (director)

David Sims is a New Zealand film director.

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Dragon boat

A dragon boat is a human-powered watercraft originating from the Pearl River Delta region of China's southern Guangdong Province.

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Dugout canoe

A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Waka (canoe) and dugout canoe are indigenous boats.

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Flax

Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae.

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Freeboard (nautical)

In sailing and boating, a vessel's freeboard is the distance from the waterline to the upper deck level, measured at the lowest point of sheer where water can enter the boat or ship.

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Gunwale

The gunwale is the top edge of the hull of a ship or boat.

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Hapū

In Māori and New Zealand English, a ("subtribe", or "clan") functions as "the basic political unit within Māori society". Waka (canoe) and Hapū are Māori words and phrases.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hōkūleʻa

Hōkūlea is a performance-accurate waa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Waka (canoe) and Hōkūleʻa are Polynesian culture and Polynesian navigation.

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Hector Busby

Sir Hector Busby (1 August 1932 – 11 May 2019), also known as Heke-nuku-mai-nga-iwi Puhipi and Hec Busby, was a New Zealand Māori navigator and traditional waka builder.

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Henry Williams (missionary)

Henry Williams (11 February 1792 – 16 July 1867) was the leader of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century.

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Horowhenua District

Horowhenua District is a territorial authority district on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand, administered by Horowhenua District Council.

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Huia

The huia (Heteralocha acutirostris) is an extinct species of New Zealand wattlebird, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. Waka (canoe) and huia are Māori culture.

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Iwi

Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. Waka (canoe) and Iwi are Māori words and phrases.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed (Calvinist) pastor and naturalist who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America.

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Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne

Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 May 1724 – 12 June 1772) was a French privateer, East India captain and explorer.

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Marquesas Islands

The Marquesas Islands (Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te HenuaEnana (North Marquesan) and Te FenuaEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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Māori language

Māori, or te reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.

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Māori people

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).

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Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Ministry of Transport (New Zealand)

Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Transport is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the New Zealand Government on transport policy.

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Moncks Cave

Moncks Cave is a cave located in Redcliffs, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Musket Wars

The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for past defeats.

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National Museum of Scotland

The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture.

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New Caledonia

New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand Wars

The New Zealand Wars (Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa) took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other.

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Ngā Toki Matawhaorua

Ngā Toki Matawhaorua of Pewhairangi, often simply known as Ngā Toki, is the name of a New Zealand waka taua (large, ornately carved Māori war canoe). Waka (canoe) and Ngā Toki Matawhaorua are Māori waka and Polynesian navigation.

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Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island.

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North Island

The North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui, 'the fish of Māui', officially North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui or historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

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Nouka Baich

Nouka Baich (নৌকা বাইচ, lit. Boat Race, also spelt Nowka Bais) is a traditional dragon boat-style paddling sport of Bangladesh.

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NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA), superseded by is a New Zealand Crown entity tasked with promoting safe and functional transport by land, including the responsibility for driver and vehicle licensing, and administering the New Zealand state highway network.

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Outrigger boat

Outrigger boats are various watercraft featuring one or more lateral support floats known as outriggers, which are fastened to one or both sides of the main hull. Waka (canoe) and outrigger boat are outrigger canoes and Polynesian navigation.

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Pacific Islander

Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Phyllocladus

Phyllocladus, the celery pines, is a small genus of conifers, now usually placed in the family Podocarpaceae.

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Piri Poutapu

Wiremu "Piri" Te Ranga Poutapu (8 June 1905 – 20 August 1975) was a New Zealand master of Māori carving and a carpenter.

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Podocarpaceae

Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs.

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Podocarpus totara

Podocarpus totara (the tōtara is a species of podocarp tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows throughout the North Island, South Island and rarely on Stewart Island / Rakiura in lowland, montane and lower subalpine forest at elevations of up to 600 m. Tōtara is commonly found in lowland areas where the soil is fertile and well drained.

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Poly(methyl methacrylate)

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is the synthetic polymer derived from methyl methacrylate.

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Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Polynesian multihull terminology

Polynesian multihull terminology, such as "ama", "aka" and "vaka" (or "waka") are multihull terms that have been widely adopted beyond the South Pacific where these terms originated. Waka (canoe) and Polynesian multihull terminology are Māori words and phrases, outrigger canoes and Polynesian navigation.

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Polynesian navigation

Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific Ocean. Waka (canoe) and Polynesian navigation are Polynesian culture.

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Polynesian Voyaging Society

The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai. Waka (canoe) and Polynesian Voyaging Society are Polynesian navigation.

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Salisipan

Salisipan are long and narrow war canoes, with or without outriggers, of the Iranun and Banguingui people of the Philippines. Waka (canoe) and Salisipan are outrigger canoes.

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Swan boat (racing)

A swan boat is a very long and narrow human-powered boat used in the team paddling sport of swan boat racing.

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Sydney Parkinson

Sydney Parkinson (1745 – 26 January 1771) was a Scottish botanical illustrator and natural history artist.

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Tahiti

Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.

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Taonga

Taonga or taoka (in South Island Māori) is a Māori-language word that refers to a treasured possession in Māori culture. Waka (canoe) and Taonga are Māori culture and Māori words and phrases.

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Tapu (Polynesian culture)

Tapu is a Polynesian traditional concept denoting something holy or sacred, with "spiritual restriction" or "implied prohibition"; it involves rules and prohibitions. Waka (canoe) and Tapu (Polynesian culture) are Polynesian culture.

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Tasman District

Tasman District is a local government district in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Taua

A taua is a war party in the tradition of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. Waka (canoe) and taua are Māori culture and Māori words and phrases.

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Te Atairangikaahu

Dame Te Atairangikaahu (23 July 1931 – 15 August 2006) was the Māori queen for 40 years, the longest reign of any Māori monarch.

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Te Rangikāheke

Te Rangikāheke, also known as Wiremu Maihi (William Marsh) by his baptismal name or Wī Maihi Te Rangikāheke was one of New Zealand Māori tribal leaders as a fine writer, speaker, politician and an employee of the early New Zealand government for many years.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.

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Tomako

Tomako or tomoko is a large war canoe from the Solomon Islands.

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Typha

Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.

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Typha orientalis

Typha orientalis, commonly known as bulrush, cumbungi, or raupō, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the genus Typha.

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Va'a

Vaʻa is a word in Samoan, Hawaiian and Tahitian which means 'boat', 'canoe' or 'ship'. Waka (canoe) and Va'a are indigenous boats, outrigger canoes and Polynesian navigation.

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Waka huia

Waka huia and Papa hou are treasure containers made by Māori – the indigenous people of New Zealand.

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Waka hurdling

Waka hurdling, also sometimes called waka peke (jumping waka), is a Māori sporting competition of jumping unornamented waka tīwai (river canoes) over wooden beams set in the water.

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Waka-jumping

In New Zealand politics, waka-jumping is a colloquial term for when a member of Parliament (MP) either switches political party between elections (taking their parliamentary seat with them and potentially upsetting electoral proportionality in the New Zealand Parliament) or when a list MP's party membership ceases.

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War canoe

xwú7mesh men in Burrard Inlet. Waka (canoe) and War canoe are Polynesian culture.

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William Williams (bishop)

William Williams (18 July 1800 – 9 February 1878) was consecrated as the first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, on 3 April 1859 by the General Synod at Wellington.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(canoe)

Also known as Waka (Maori), Waka (Māori), Waka ama, Waka taua, Waka tīwai.

, Polynesia, Polynesian multihull terminology, Polynesian navigation, Polynesian Voyaging Society, Radiocarbon dating, Salisipan, Swan boat (racing), Sydney Parkinson, Tahiti, Taonga, Tapu (Polynesian culture), Tasman District, Taua, Te Atairangikaahu, Te Rangikāheke, The New Zealand Herald, Tomako, Typha, Typha orientalis, Va'a, Waka huia, Waka hurdling, Waka-jumping, War canoe, William Williams (bishop).

Waka (canoe), the Glossary

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See also

Outrigger canoes

Polynesian culture

Polynesian navigation

References