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Korotangi
The Korotangi (''bird of sorrow'') is a ''taonga'' or sacred artifact discovered in New Zealand. It is a carving of a bird made in sepentine stone. Some Māori of Tainui allegiance believe that it was brought to the country from Hawaiki in their ancestral waka.
==History==
The statue was discovered among the roots of a Manuka tree blown over in a storm in 1878. The location was near Aotea Harbour, traditional landing place of the Tainui waka (c.1350)
This was the story of its finding given at the time by Mr Albert Walker,who claimed it was found by a local Māori. He offered it for sale to a local Cambridge antique and ethnographic dealer, Major Drummond-Hay. It was then purchased by Major John Wilson, as a present to his Māori wife, Te Aorere, for 50 pounds. There were other versions of Korotangi's appearance. In one, Mr Walker claimed he bought it from a visiting trading ship. In another, a local shopkeeper, Mr Naylor, was reported to have come across it while digging a fence post hole on his property near Kawhia. Yet another claims that it was carried to New Zealand on an Arab or South-East Asian ship which was wrecked off the west coast of New Zealand. The Maori Tainui tribe claim it came from the 'Homeland' on a migration canoe, but it is carved with metal tools which the Polynesians did not have. It has no similarity to any other manufactured piece in Oceania. Its origin is a mystery.
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