Okains Bay Museum
Rural museum of Māori taonga and settler life, with carved waka and a Waitangi Day fair.
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This guide to Okains Bay Museum, on Banks Peninsula outside Christchurch, begins on Waitangi Day nineteen ninety, when a newly carved Ngāi Tahu canoe met the Ōpara River for the first time with its paddlers aboard. It follows Murray Thacker, the farmer who collected his first greenstone adze as a boy and built this museum, and the apprentices who carved the waka from his tōtara. Best heard outside, facing the museum door.
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