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Some of the early European settlers learned the Māori language and recorded Māori mythology, including George Grey, Governor of New Zealand from 1845 to 1855 and 1861–1868. [ 72 ] A portrait of Māori man, by Gottfried Lindauer , 1882 Tāwhiao , the second Māori King
Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. [13] Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed a distinct culture , whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern ...
All three groups of settlers were stock-keepers rather than agriculturalists. The Deans brothers, on the plains, were certainly best situated for agriculture, but even though one of their early crops of two or 3 acres (12,000 m 2 ) yielded at the rate of 60 to 70 bushels an acre, markets for grain were too far off and transport too expensive to ...
The history of the Nelson Region of New Zealand dates back to settlement by the Māori people in about the 12th century. [1] The Nelson and Marlborough Region were known to the Māori as Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui which means "The Prow of the Canoe of Maui".
Other supposed structures and creations of pre-Polynesian settlers are described as the Waipoua 'stone city', [9] the 'Waitapu Valley (Maunganui Bluff) solar observatory' including Puketapu hill and a mountain at Hokianga, a 'stone village' in the Tapapakanga Regional Park, and all manner of petroglyphs and carvings found throughout the islands ...
File: 1863 Meeting of Settlers and Maoris at Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.jpg
Terraces on Maungawhau / Mount Eden, marking the sites of the defensive palisades and ditches of this former pā. The word pā (Māori pronunciation:; often spelled pa in English) can refer to any Māori village or defensive settlement, but often refers to hillforts – fortified settlements with palisades and defensive terraces – and also to fortified villages.
Māori chiefs continued to trade with Europeans in Australia, bringing back rare goods to New Zealand. An 1823 image of Sydney depicts the presence of Māori. [7] There were at least 700 Māori visitors to Sydney prior to 1840, [6] with some of the more notable being the chiefs Te Pahi, Ruatara, Hongi Hika, Taonui, Patuone, Rewa and Te Wharerahi.