To tar a canoe to be carved for 1990
PA Wellington A canoe hewn from an ancient totara will be built on the banks of the Waikato River for the 1990 celebrations. Felling of the 1000-year-old tree, which stands on the sacred mountain, Titiraupenga, near Whakamaru, will begin this week by the Titiraupenga Trust.
The Tokoroa Trust decided on the project to help commemorate the arrival of Kupe some 1000 years ago, 750 years of Maori habitation and 150 years since the beginning of official British settlement.
The chairman of the trust, Mr John Paki, said
the canoe, to be named Kotuku, would represent all races in New Zealand, and would be carved by representatives of every culture.
The noted Tainui carver, Monte Clair, of Matamata and the Te Arawa carver, Peter Hemi, of Rotorua, will supervise the work and the trust is seeking craftsmen and artisans interested in working on the project.
The reciting of special karakia by a tohunga (priest), performed late last week, enables the tree to be correctly felled and to permit it to be carved on a non-tribal basis.
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Press, 7 December 1988, Page 60
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