When the Maori reached New Zealand from eastern Polynesia about 1,000 years ago, they felled the big trees to make carvings and waka canoes. European settlers found the trunks of young kauri to be ...

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND—Stuff reports that a kauri tree unearthed during a road construction project on the North Island is not a partially complete waka, or Maori canoe, as had been previously ...

Eighteen months of work by Kaikohe schoolchildren has transformed a kauri ... did all the carvings on the side. The only bit they didn't do was cut it down." Helping to build a waka from start ...

Project archaeologist Sarah Phear says the 17 metre Kauri tree trunk has been culturally ... but it’s not consistent with waka carving. There are branches and logs around and under the trunk ...

MASSIVE: A 7-tonne, 7-metre piece of kauri ... tribal area. Carvings are living representations of past ancestors so any depth you can add to them is really good," he says. The waka will stand ...

Sheryl Hughes won a $5000 Kauri Award Scholarship from ... symbols and meanings behind traditional Maori carving by having a hand-carved waka made for the kindergarten. The totara waka was crafted ...

My fingers trace the carving that lines the waka’s sides, in hopes of feeling the kauri wood beneath the red lacquer. For Maori, Te Rerenga Wairua is the most spiritually significant place in ...