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… Zealand, they explored the coastline in ancestral canoes. Later they travelled by foot around coastal and inland areas. … record many great feats of exploration. These traditions often combine symbolic and historical aspects – including tapatapa whenua (naming landscapes after deeds and events) and taunaha whenua (naming landscapes …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… accompanied or guided the canoes on their journeys to Aotearoa (New Zealand). Waitaha followed his sister Hāhuru to New Zealand from Hawaiki, guided by the whale …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… Howard Morrison was one of the most beloved New Zealand entertainers of the second half of the twentieth century. A … from the 1960s, both as a member of the Howard Morrison Quartet and as a solo performer, he helped bring Māori culture …
Type: Biography
… a combination of European tunes and traditional actions created by Polynesian ancestors, underpinned by Māori … of the Young Maori Party, whose leaders included Ngata, Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa) of Ngāti Mutunga, and Māui Pōmare of Ngāti …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… Woodhouse was born in Heaton, Lancashire, England, the daughter of Ann Woodhouse and her husband, Thomas Woodhouse, a fisherman who was later a miller. She was baptised at Overton on 10 June 1832. …
Type: Biography
… region, Ngā Rauru embraced Christianity and built up extensive trade networks, becoming prosperous. In 1848 the … purchased land in south Taranaki. Some Ngā Rauru entered into a pact with other Taranaki tribes in the 1850s to … and war broke in north Taranaki. Some Ngā Rauru supported those who opposed the Waitara land sale. War in south …
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Part of story: Ngā Rauru Kītahi
… the southern ocean and fished up the North Island, known as Te Ika-ā-Māui (the fish of Māui). His waka became the South Island, Te Waka-ā-Māui (Māui’s canoe). A human ancestor, Kupe, is said to have later discovered New Zealand on a waka voyage. His wife …
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Part of story: Waka – canoes
… Mr Desmond is a cattle-drover, and that he is of Radical tendencies', the editor of the Hawke's Bay Herald wrote. He was said to be 25 years old, born in New Zealand of …
Type: Biography
… Matiu Rata was a greatly respected and influential Minister of Māori Affairs and of Lands in the third Labour …
Type: Biography
… The idea of a pre-Māori people known as Moriori was contested by two New Zealand ethnologists – H. D. Skinner in the … 1940s. Both men argued that the first settlers, the moa hunters, were Polynesians. Duff’s excavations at the …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… John Boultbee was born on 3 September 1799 at Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England. He was the … gentry. A rover from boyhood, his schooling interrupted by homeward truancies, John was to be always …
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… Ma wai e moe te tane Mangere ki te mahi-kai? Who will marry a man Too lazy to till the … for food? This proverb, and many others like it, indicate that the search for food was the primary activity for …
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Part of story: Daily life in Māori communities – te noho a te hapori
… Sarah McAuley, the daughter of William McAuley, a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth … of St John. One of seven surviving children, she was educated at home. She upset her staunch Presbyterian parents …
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… farms. Returned servicemen were settled on farms after both world wars. Farm types Pastoral farming was the main form of agriculture. Sheep predominated, followed by dairy cows and beef cattle. Dairy farms … taken to larger, more advanced factories further afield. After the Second World War processing was concentrated in …
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Part of story: King Country region
… Gisborne, on 2 February 1894, the only surviving son of Hetekia Te Kani Pere (or Halbert), a farmer, and his wife, Riripeti Rangikohera Ranginui. He was of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Rongowhakaata descent, and also of …
Type: Biography
… a dramatic setting between mountains and the coast, on State Highway 1 and the main trunk railway, with a 2013 population of 1,971. Kaikōura is isolated by mountains and hills to both north and south. Before …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… from the early 1800s, and the introduction of new military technology, saw the use of traditional weaponry decline. … the taiaha (long fighting staff) were quickly made obsolete by the musket (long-barrelled muzzle-loaded gun, brought …
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Part of story: Mau rākau – Māori use of weaponry
… Post-war expansion and diversification After the Second World War there was a rapid increase internationally in the number and types of museums. Among … institutions became increasingly specialised in their internal organisation. Previously staff consisted of directors …
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Part of story: Museums
… when Māori aligned with the Liberal Party, which dominated Parliament. Māori Liberal MPs included James Carroll, Apirana Ngata and Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa). Other Māori, including Māui Pōmare, were …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… February 1860 near, and given his first bath in, the warm water basins of Te Tarata, the white terrace at Rotomahana. Other evidence indicates that he …
Type: Biography