Jeff Evans

This is the biography of the mighty ceremonial waka taua Ngātokimatawhaorua that rests on the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Herangi. In the late 1930s, the Waikato leader held a dream to build seven waka taua for the 1940 centennial commemorations at Waitangi. By 1937, two waka had been commissioned. Carved in...