Hundreds of years ago, the Moriori people of present-day New Zealand used a type of canoe known as a waka to ... the fragmented pieces of the waka were found buried in sand dunes by a local ...

A family on the Chatham Islands found almost 20 fragments of a historic canoe, or waka, in a sand dune, officials said and photos show. Photo from Manatū Taonga / New Zealand's Ministry for ...