- River)
could be
crossed without boats.
Native reeds were used to
build mōkihi,
small boats that
enabled a
swift return downriver to the east coast. The...
-
Kawarau River and
Clutha River / Mata-Au
could be
crossed without boats.
Mōkihi reed
boats enabled a
swift return downriver to the east coast. The Cromwell...
-
returning to the east
coast by
descending the
Clutha River in reed
boats called mōkihi.
Their settlement Take Kārara
included a pā and a kāinga
mahinga kai (food-gathering...
-
European settlement, the area
occupying modern-day
Spreydon was
called Wai
Mōkihi and
there was a
small settlement (pā) here was
known as Ōmōkihi. Spreydon...
-
Chiefs Reko and Kaikōura in 1853. They
returned him down the
river on a
mōkihi, a flax reed open kayak, that they
built from flax
stems and raupō from...
- at
least until Berossus' day, in the "Corcyrean Mountains" of Armenia.
Mokihi are made
traditionally from
raupo or
korari in New Zealand.
Still being...
- the
Kawarau River could be crossed, and
returned him down the
river on a
mōkihi, a flax reed open kayak.[1] In 1910, 57
years after the event, Nathanael...
- dysentery, so his
guides returned him down the Clutha,
shooting the
rapids in a
mōkihi reed boat.
Official explorations of the
northern and
western parts of Central...
-
extremely light, were
bound together with flax
twine to make
river rafts called mokihi. Māori
stone pestle for flax
fibers Flax
fibers (muka) Māori
woman wearing...
- that the
shortest way back to
Southland would be to
build a flax
fibre mokihi or raft and ride it all the way down the
Clutha River. As they set off from...
