import\Hoturoa-Statue.html indexed_doc HTMLPlugin 747 Hoturoa-Statue.html Hoturoa-Statue.html en utf8 175E 30 302 3024 175.30244908 37S 80 806 8066 -37.80666313 0.005 Hoturoa Statue HTML http://Hoturoa-Statue.html http://Hoturoa-Statue.html HASHd994cc90b183b8c1802de8 1319151048 20111021 1323729579 20111213 HASHd994.dir <p> The statue here is Hoturoa and he was the captain of the Tainui waka. He is carved in a Tahitian style to represent the fact that there was no kind of indigenous New Zealand art; they were all from the islands. And so all these plants are the plants that we here natively when the waka began arriving. Lots of these native plants were used as foods or textiles, or other kinds of useful things by the early Maori. They discovered that these plants had medicinal uses or you could eat them. <p>