Story: Traditional Māori games – ngā tākaro

More links and websites

• Games and pastimes of the Maori

  This account by Elsdon Best is online at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.

• The history of waka ama

  Maitahi outrigger canoe club describes the history of waka ama (outrigger canoes) for racing.

• Journal of the Polynesian Society: Meeting of Maori and European cultures and its effects upon the unorganized games of Maori children

  This article by Brian Sutton-Smith explores the effect of European contact on Māori children’s games.

• Kī-o-rahi

  Kī-o-rahi is a Māori team sport gaining in popularity.

• Waka Ama History in Aotearoa

  A timeline tracing the history of the sport in Aotearoa.

More suggestions and sources

• Andersen, Johannes Carl. Maori string figures. Wellington: Board of Maori Ethnological Research, 1927.
• Beattie, James Herries. Traditional lifeways of the Southern Māori: the Otago University Museum ethnological project, 1920. Edited by Atholl Anderson. Dunedin: Otago University Press in association with Otago Museum, 2009.
• Brown, Harko. Ngā taonga tākaro: Māori sports and games. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005.
• Maysmor, Bob. Te manu tukutuku: a study of the Māori kite. Wellington: Allen and Unwin, 1990..