Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 8, 2019 18:22:48 GMT 12
WAKA LAUNCH MARKS START OF TUIA 250 FESTIVITIES IN THE BAY
Emotions were running high for Freddie Tauotaha as he helped launch four newly completed waka at Russell yesterday.
The Tahitian carver's father, Puaniho Tauotaha, had started one of the four canoes — a 14-metre kauri waka ama — decades earlier with the late Sir Hekenukumai Busby, a master navigator and waka builder from Doubtless Bay.
But after Puaniho's untimely death the unfinished project languished in a barn on Sir Hek's Aurere property.
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12282913
Emotions were running high for Freddie Tauotaha as he helped launch four newly completed waka at Russell yesterday.
The Tahitian carver's father, Puaniho Tauotaha, had started one of the four canoes — a 14-metre kauri waka ama — decades earlier with the late Sir Hekenukumai Busby, a master navigator and waka builder from Doubtless Bay.
But after Puaniho's untimely death the unfinished project languished in a barn on Sir Hek's Aurere property.
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12282913