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Painting of a pahi from Tuamotu Islands by Herb Kawainui Kāne (1928–2011)
Source: Herb Kawainui Kāne: A Visual Collection of Hawaiian History
Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretch from East Cape to northern Hawke’s Bay. Assembled through painstaking historical and genealogical research over more than 70 years by Rongowhakaata Halbert and his family, this outstanding work of scholarship is destined to serve the needs of all New Zealanders, and especially the peoples of Gisborne and the East Coast, for generations to come.
- Story: East Coast region: Waka landings, places of significance and tribes
- Hine Hakirirangi
- Double-hulled voyaging canoes, Gisborne, 2000
Model pahi (sailing canoe from Tuamotu), 2007, New Zealand,
by Izzat Design Limited. Commissioned 2007. © Te Papa.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (FE011986)
A google earth tour of Te Papatipu o Horouta.
Translation
As I Return to the Eastern seaboard and traverse
the ancestral land of the Horouta canoe.
I come upon Tikirau the landing place of the canoes.
I turn and travel by the coast to Patangata
The area of Tumoana Kotore
then to Maniaroa where the brown dogs of uetuhiao fought and died.
Thus severing Apanui and Ngati PorouKawakawa mai i tawhiti the area of te whanau a Tuwhakairiora
At Waiapu where the emptying of the Horouta canoe took place.
The Begining of Ngati Porou where they lived in multitudes.
The Mountain Hikurangi, where Maui’s canoe lies,
the heart and symbol of the people
The great tidal wave of Ruatapu
the proverbial saying of Te Kani a Takirau
A mountain steadfast ever since the beginning of time
It’s awesomeness embracing its people since time immemorial
the caretakers being Ngati Uepohatu
Te Aitanga a Mate and Umuariki.I return again to the eastern seaboard come upon tawhiti a paoa
the area of te whanau a iritekura at marotiri
at tuatini te whanau a ruataupare
at mangatuna at uawa
Te aitanga a Hauiti at Rototahi te whironui and the eminant Paikea!I return again to the Eastern Seaboard
and come upon Whangara mai i tawhiti
the time of HInematioro I approached Turanganui landing at Te Toka a Taiau
and thus the people of Te Aitanga a Mahaki
Rongawhakata and Kahungunu and the proverbial saying
Ka Tere raua ko tere Pipi Whakao
Each to his own autonomy prestige.
Manawaru and Araiteuru
Pipitaiari the strange and unexplained.
I land again at Te kuri a Pawa
the area of Tamanuhiri and Ruapani
the overlaping boundries of the two canoe areas.
Takitimu to the south
Horouta canoe lies petrified in the lake at Muriwai
the Horouta canoe from the eastern seaboard.
Emanating its mantle and essence into the world of Light.
- Waka landings, places of significance and tribes
- Story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes, Arrivals and alliances: The Horouta canoe
- Story: East Coast region: Waka landings, places of significance and tribes
- Story: East Coast region: Māori settlement
- Story: Kūmara
- ‘Taputini’ – a traditional kūmara cultivar
- Story: Pacific migrations
- 'The arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand'
Cook 250 Research Notebook > Horouta
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