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The Maori Merchant of Venice (2002) was notable as a complete Māori language translation and performance of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Prominent Māori actors include Temuera Morrison , Cliff Curtis , Jemaine Clement , Lawrence Makoare , Miriama Smith , Manu Bennett , Keisha Castle-Hughes , James Rolleston , Rena Owen , Shavaughn ...
A Māori man painting a tattoo on a carved wooden tiki at Whakarewarewa model village, New Zealand, c. 1905 Hawaiian kiʻi at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park Tiki statuette from the Marquesas. In Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man created by either Tūmatauenga or Tāne.
Marree Man was created between 27 May 1998, when NASA's Landsat-5 satellite showed the site undisturbed, and 12 June 1998, when the completed figure was visible. Comparative satellite images of the Marree Man site: left, 27 May 1998; right, 12 June 1998. In August 2016, work was carried out to redefine the geoglyph using a grader assisted by ...
At least two references to him from 1891 appear in Edward Tregear's The Maori-Polynesian comparative dictionary, where he is described as "God, the Supreme Being", [12]: 106 and as a figure in Moriori genealogy, but as Tiki's descendant. [12]: 669 A third reference might be found in the same book under Ngāti Maniapoto's genealogy.
The name Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu translates roughly as "the summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau (flute) to his loved one". [3]
A portrait of Māori man, by Gottfried Lindauer, 1882 Tāwhiao, the second Māori King. However, rising tensions over disputed land purchases and attempts by Māori in the Waikato to establish what some saw as a rival to the British system of royalty – viz. the Māori King Movement (Kīngitanga) – led to the New Zealand wars in the 1860s.
English: Half-length portrait of an elderly Maori man with two feathers in his short grey hair. He is wearing a dog skin cloak (kahu kuri), and holding a mere or patu (short edged weapon). He is wearing a dog skin cloak (kahu kuri), and holding a mere or patu (short edged weapon).
He wrote Moko; or Maori Tattooing, which was published in 1896. After he returned to England he built up a collection of 35 to 40 mokomokai which he later offered to sell to the New Zealand Government. When the offer was declined, most of the collection was sold to the American Museum of Natural History. [9]