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Nga Taonga Tuku Iho

This report is about all the maori  stuff and all the rest of the amazing stuff that Hector Busby has done.

Hector Busby.

Hector Busby Is a legendary waka carver, navigator and bridge maker. Mr Busby has made over 100 bridges and over 20 wakas in his life.

Hector Busby is over 80 years old and yet he is still teaching kids carving and maori culture. Hector got the idea of carving wakas at the age of 8 in Waenga and he has made many amazing things in the last 76 years.

Hector Busby has sailed to 2 countries hawiye and ranga Hector Busby is a really good friend with the hawaiians or like a leader to the hawaiians.The hawaiians see Hector Busby as a  god and that is why Mr Busby is such an amazing man.

Waka

Wakas are maori boat that maori people use to go to places across the sea people used paddles to move the wakas instead of engines.

When people used wakas if the waka tipped over in the sea everyone would have to grab a paddle and put it under your chin to float and not drown so you don't die.

On wakas when sailing the wakas there is the navigator,captain and other paddlers but even if you were a captain or navigator you still had to work together to paddle the waka.

Old rock and stick Tools  

When people didn't have power or anything to make things with like chainsaw people started to grab things and make tools with them like an axe (an axe needs a rock a tough stick and some flax).People made axes to build homes and to hunt,killed,cook and eat animals.

When people ran out of big rocks they had to make pickaxes with tough long curved rocks so then they digged underground and found more rocks and made more tools.

When people were hunting and the animal was too fast they would make bows to shoot them when they were too far away and they made the bow with a stick and one long string and they made the arrow with one little sharp rock a stick and four feathers.

When people needed food like meat or fish people made spears they needed one big thick and a sharp rock at the front and killed many animals with the spear.