How a canoe helped turn Hawaiian culture into a source of pride and even influenced Hollywood
Early crew members of the voyaging canoe Hokulea have gathered in Hawai'i to celebrate the vessel's 50th birthday ...
Dad and son stumble upon ‘one of the most important finds of all time in Polynesia’
What started as a “normal day” salvaging wood in New Zealand eventually led to a large-scale excavation that uncovered more than 450 fragments of a historic canoe.
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Dad and son stumble upon ‘one of the most important finds of all time in Polynesia’
Photo from Justin Maxwell via Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage “Waka is the Māori word for canoe,” according to the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. The term can refer to a wide ...