Story: Mau rākau – Māori use of weaponry

More links and websites

• Te Whare Tū Taua o Aotearoa

  A para whakawai (weaponry training school) founded in the 1980s

More suggestions and sources

• Ballara, Angela. Taua: ‘musket wars’, ‘land wars’ or tikanga?: warfare in Māori society in the early nineteenth century. Auckland: Penguin, 2003.
• Best, Elsdon. Notes on the art of war: as conducted by the Māori of New Zealand, with accounts of various customs, rites, superstitions, &c., pertaining to war, as practised and believed in by the ancient Māori. Auckland: Reed, 2001.
• Broughton, Ruka. Ngaa mahi Whakaari a Tiitokowaru. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1993.
• Buck, Peter. The coming of the Maori. Wellington: Māori Purposes Fund Board, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1949.
• Evans, Jeff. Māori weapons in pre-European New Zealand. Auckland: Reed, 2002.
• Vayda, A. P. Maori warfare. Wellington: Reed for the Polynesian Society, 1970.