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Lorenzo Kahukura's Net

 

Kahukura Net

by Marie Insley

Questions:

1. Who was Kahukura?
   Answer -  A chief
   
2. How was Kahukura described?
   Answer -he was fair hair like the spirit people of the sea
   
3. What was the dream that Kahukura had over and over?
   Answer - seashore
   
4. What had Kahukura never seen before?
   Answer - net
   
5. What was the net made out of?
   Answer - flex
   
6. How come the spirit people left their net behind?
   Answer - because Kahura was a Terrified man
   
7. Why was it good that Kahukura kept the net?
   Answer -  To catch a lot more fish than lines and hooks
   
8. What does this Maori myth/legend tell us about fishing?
   Answer - fishing is good.

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