Matahourua

{{Short description|Canoe of the legendary hero Kupe}}

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In Māori tradition, Matahourua was the canoe of the legendary hero Kupe, who, in some accounts, was the discoverer of Aotearoa (New Zealand){{Cite book |last=Craig |first=Robert D. |title=Dictionary of Polynesian mythology |date=1989 |publisher=Greenwood press |isbn=978-0-313-25890-9 |location=New York Westport, Conn. London |pages=161}}{{Cite book |last=Grey |first=George |title=Polynesian Mythology |publisher=Taplinger Press; New York |year=1970 |edition=reprint |pages=108,161-3}}