Whare and canoe storage sheds were thatched with raupo ... So begun the demise of the stone age Maori. Ngapuhi in the north became a super power trading early with whalers for muskets, and our ...

A large group of Maori men in traditional attire lined the shore outside the Waitangi treaty grounds for a mass haka. (EPA Images pic) Bare-chested Maori bellowed haka chants Thursday to mark New ...

A kid in Masterton, New Zealand, came top of the class in a costume competition after his teacher’s aide built an incredible Maori canoe costume around his wheelchair. Footage from Courtney ...

They reportedly came from East Polynesia 1300s on canoe voyages and settled on the ... Te Tiriti)-- the founding document with around 500 Maori chiefs, or rangatira. As per a report by Al Jazeera ...

New Zealand [Phil Walter/Getty Images] Experts say that the Maori came to the uninhabited islands of New Zealand from East Polynesia on canoe voyages in the 1200s. Over hundreds of years of ...

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The coffin was later paddled — in a traditional canoe flotilla — along the river to Taupiri Mountain, the final resting place of the king and other high-profile Maori, according to CNN.

After her ascension, Queen Nga Wai accompanied the late king’s coffin in a flotilla of traditional canoes along the river as he was guided by Maori warriors to his final resting place.

Pic: AP After her ascension, Queen Nga Wai accompanied her father, who died on 30 August aged 69, in a flotilla of traditional canoes along the river as he was guided by Maori warriors to his ...

Following the anointment of his daughter, the King’s coffin was taken to the Waikato River by hearse before being paddled in a flotilla of traditional Maori waka or canoe to Taupiri Mountain ...

open image in gallery A council of New Zealand’s Maori chiefs anointed a new queen on 5 September 2024 as a flotilla of war canoes readied to transport her father, the late monarch, for burial ...