Horouta

Horouta

In Māori tradition, Horouta is an alternate name of the Tākitimu canoe. It received this name because of its swiftness (horo) (Tregear 1891:20).

References

*E.R. Tregear, "Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary" (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.

ee also

*List of Māori waka


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