pre-steel toolsIn this article, the author explores previously lost techniques and practices associated with reproducing a New Zealand Maori wood carving of a poupou (panel) that was collected by Joseph Banks in October 1769 from a partly-constructed house on Pourewa Island, Tolaga Bay (Uawa)...
although it was not until the expeditions of James Cook over a hundred years later that any meaningful interactions occurred between Europeans and Maori. For Maori, the new arrivals brought opportunities for trade, which many groups embraced eagerly. Early European settlers introduced tools, weapons, ...
Kite (flax-bag), stock of kumera (sweet potatoes), Stock of edible fern-root, birds preserved in fat, shellfish, preserved eel, preserved seafish, gourds for water or food, farming or digging tools, maripi (ceremonial knife), carving tools, fire-making tools, weaving tools, musical ...
Māoris used materials such as bone, wood, flax, feathers, pounamu (greenstone), pāua (abalone), and shell to construct their own tools for scraping, carving, and painting. Red, black, and white were the most commonly-used colors and each of them had symbolic meaning. Māori visual art ...