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The women were beautiful, described as 'very fair of complexion, with shining fair hair'. Their clothes were pakerangi (flax garments dyed red), and pora and pureke ('rough mats'). [13] Their diets consisted of forest-food and whitebait caught from Lake Rotorua. These patupaiarehe had an aversion to steam, however.
The name is the subject of a 1960 song by the New Zealand balladeer Peter Cape. [11] It appears in the 1976 (re-released in 1979) single "The Lone Ranger" by British band Quantum Jump , which featured in the title sequence of the second series of The Kenny Everett Video Show .
The word has also given rise to the phrase waka-jumping, in New Zealand politics. The foreshore and seabed hīkoi approaching the New Zealand Parliament. The red, black, and white flags represent tino rangatiratanga. aroha love, sympathy, compassion arohanui "lots of love", commonly as a valediction [6] [7] haere mai and haere ra
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Maata Horomona was part of the troupe of 27 men and 16 women who embarked on a 9-month tour in July 1909. [2] The choice of members was the subject of conflicting considerations between the New Zealand intermediaries, including Bennett, and the American organizers: while the New Zealanders favored legitimacy and technical skills, the Americans had racial stereotypes in mind, notably that of ...
Production has begun on “Tangata Pai,” a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama that claims to be the first primetime series in which 30% of the dialog will be in the Maori language. The eight ...
Similarly, the Māori word ending -tanga, which has a similar meaning to the English ending -ness, is occasionally used in terms such as kiwitanga (that is, the state of being a New Zealander [8]). English words intimately associated with New Zealand are often of Māori origin, such as haka, [9] Pākehā, [10] Aotearoa, [11] kiwi, [12] and the ...
It includes New Zealand actresses that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "New Zealand Māori actresses" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.