Maori sky reckoning draws figures on a scale the Greek list never attempts. Te Waka o Rangi is a canoe whose prow is at one end of the visible Milky Way and whose stern is at the other, taking in the stars the Greek tradition divides between Scorpius and Orion, and treating the whole sweep as one object.
The scale is a design choice and it comes from the use. Polynesian navigation reads the sky for direction and for season, at sea, often with part of the sky obscured, and a small pattern that happens to be behind a cloud is no help. A very large figure whose parts can be identified separately and referred back to the whole keeps working when conditions are bad.
The canoe also does the year's work. As it turns through the sky it hauls the Pleiades up into view, and that rising is the event that opens the new year. The figure is not decorative. It is the mechanism by which the calendar arrives, and the canoe is doing the work rather than illustrating it.
The hook of Maui, the fishhook at the tail of Scorpius, is at the prow end and is sometimes described as trailing from the canoe. The parts of the Polynesian sky connect to one another in a way the Greek constellations, drawn as separate figures on a globe, generally do not.