Paoa and Kiwa

We were learning about Paoa and Kiwa. Someone from the museum came to talk about Paoa and Kiwa.
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Paoa and Kiwa were sea-voyagers who captained the Horouta Waka that sailed from Hawaiki to Aotearoa with Kiwa’s son and Paoa’s sister and his daughter.

They brought Kumara with them from Hawaiki to plant so they were able to stay here.  It was Paoa’s sister Hinehākirirangi’s job to look after the kumara on the voyage.

On arrival to Aotearoa near the shoreline of Ohiwa, the waka hit a sand-bar and damaged the bow and hull.  After lots of discussion they decided Kiwa would carefully sail along the coastline after some minor repairs that Kiwa did, while Paoa would search overland   Paoa looked for a big timber tree, cut it down and floated it down the Waipaoa River to where Kiwa was. While in Turanganui-a-kiwa they used a big native timber to fix the waka they used suitable timber to repair the waka properly.   

While sailing along the coastline Kiwa discovered a beautiful bay full of birds, forest and sealife which he named it Tūranganui-a-Kiwa. This was the waiting place of Kiw.  

It was later celebrated with the marriage of Kiwa’s son Hinehākirirangi, to Paoa’s daughter Hine Akua. There are still people related to Paoa and Kiwa living today.

Someone from the museum came and made presentation of Paoa and Kiwa to our class.  We then made sand art with pva glue and sand.  We made a waka out of driftwood, skewers and material.  The wood was our hull, the skewers were our mast and the material was our sail.  We put holes in the material to attach it to the skewers then decorated our sails with marker to decorate it with Maori art.