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… as well as concern for the social and political plight of Māori, led to the establishment of other newspapers. Charles … (1861–62). Davis also encouraged the idea of a press for Māori, who responded affirmatively to this – and his papers … Māori-language newspapers are also a source of church history in New Zealand. The first sponsored by a church was …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… At the beginning of the 20th century, Māori society and culture reached its lowest ebb. Introduced … diseases had helped reduce the estimated numbers of Māori to under 50,000 – the lowest ever – in a total … 800,000. With a small population and dwindling resources, Māori influence upon the affairs of the nation was …
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Part of story: Māori
… the whole of the southern hemisphere.’ 1 A focus on natural history New Zealand’s early museums initially concentrated … followed the evolutionary ideas of the time. Artefacts from Māori and other supposedly primitive cultures were often … of moa and other animals. There were also busts, whakairo (Māori carvings), paintings and photographs. Wharenui Māori …
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Part of story: Museums
… in the 1840s. Angas showed an early interest in natural history and drawing, but on completion of his education at … During his travels Angas met a number of prominent Māori, whose portraits he painted, and made careful and detailed pencil and watercolour drawings of Māori clothing, artefacts, dwellings and customs. His …
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… Zealand ; a series of 11 books on aspects of the country’s history; Guy Scholefield’s Dictionary of New Zealand b … produced five volumes of more than 3,000 biographies (with Māori biographies also published in Māori), and the New Zealand historical a tlas (1989–97), …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… James Cook is a key figure in the history of New Zealand. On his first voyage he and his … He added further detail on his second and third voyages. Māori and European contact Cook’s first voyage provided Europe with its first substantial knowledge of the Māori people. The observations of Cook himself, and of …
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Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… singer, performing as a soloist, in duets, trios and in a Māori vocal quartet. As a young man Halbert worked for some … his people at major hui. He was a member of the Tākitimu Māori Council from 1928 to at least 1946. During the Second … 1940 Rongo Halbert devoted most of his life to studying the history and genealogy of Māori tribes, particularly those of …
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… Mother earth In Māori tradition and history, Papatūānuku is profoundly important. Papatūānuku is … in the traditional world view. Emerging from water In many Māori creation traditions, Papatūānuku emerged from under …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… bush and brought the surveyors into frequent contact with Māori. The rigours of surveying were familiar to Percy … and walked and canoed to Lake Taupō, hiring canoes from Māori; they then travelled on to Lakes Rotomahana and … to collect and record information about the traditional history and culture of the Māori people, which was to form …
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… An early example was James Cowan, who became enthralled by history while growing up on a farm on the Ōrakau battle … The New Zealand wars (1922–23) drew sympathetically on Māori as well as Pākehā accounts. Another prolific writer in both English and Māori, Pei Te Hurunui Jones, recorded Tainui traditions, …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… of the greatest movements from a single country in modern history. Throughout the latter part of the 19th century, … There are numerous examples of an affinity between Māori and Italians: The family of early settler Salvatore … of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe. There are more than 2,000 Māori–Italian descendants of the Māhia lighthouse keeper …
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Part of story: Italians
… F. Rollett argued that New Zealand had a rich tradition in Māori stories about the deeds of warriors and loves of … in 1892) provided materials and several textbooks on Māori traditions were published to encourage artists to … wrote travel accounts investing the landscape with Māori history, and in the 1920s he published his history of the …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… of Nelson in 1841 – before they even reached New Zealand. Māori response to museums Europeans were not the only ones collecting and preserving objects from the past. Māori used marae in a similar way to museums, as places … and entertainment have been a constant feature of their history. Overview of New Zealand museums In 2012 New Zealand …
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Part of story: Museums
… followed from supporters of artistic freedom. Te Papa and Māori involvement in museums The flagship of the new museums … with a wide cross section of New Zealanders, including many Māori visitors. In the 2000s it was the most visited museum … War Memorial Museum’s galleries on New Zealand’s military history and its armoury collection Museum of Transport and …
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Part of story: Museums
… in turn the societies of modern Europe. Müller equated the history of language with the history of race, and believed … single Aryan ancestry was shared by Europeans and Indians. Māori became included in the chain of peoples thought to … of the Pacific, including New Zealand. He declared that Māori language, mythology and customs contained extensive …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… New Zealand’s Māori tribes have a fund of narratives about people and … linguistics and anthropology has broadened understanding of Māori settlement by canoe from Polynesia, pointing to a history of about 700 years. Pre-canoe stories In addition to …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… of Elsdon Best , an eminent ethnographer and authority on Māori history and tradition. Her maternal grandfather, W. E. … due to her deep, pleasing voice, and encouraged young Māori women in domestic skills. She was also an excellent …
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… to the establishment of collections relating to Maori history, art and culture the natural history collections of shells, birds and plants were being … entomology, zoology, geology, archaeology, ethnology and history. He was also a keen photographer and collected …
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… was most significant when he turned his attention to the Māori. He travelled from Auckland to the Rotorua and Taupō … as far south as the Mōkau River, observing and recording Māori health and customs. He compiled statistics of the … processes consequently led him to an increasing interest in history. By the mid 1850s he was working on bringing all his …
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… New Zealand writing about history has often distinguished between ‘discovery’, which … this heroic view of explorers should be qualified. Role of Māori Māori had explored all of New Zealand’s North Island and …
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Part of story: European exploration