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New Zealand Painting. "Kia
Whakatane Ahau"  Whale
Island or Moutehora is depicted in this evening light painting of Whakatane
Harbour. The statue of Wairaka stands over the entrance to the harbour.
Wairaka was a Maori woman who travelled to New Zealand in the great
Polynesian migrations and was on the one of the first canoes (Mataatua
waka) to reach the Bay of Plenty. Women were not allowed to paddle the
waka but she rescued the waka one night when its slipped away from its
berth. She cried "Kia Whakatane Ahau" ( I shall be a man)
Click on the painting to enlarge further. 
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Copyright to Andrew Whyte 2003.
