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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Extinct order of birds This article is about the extinct New Zealand birds known as moa. For other uses, see Moa (disambiguation). Moa Temporal range: Miocene – Holocene, 17–0.0006 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N North Island giant moa skeleton Scientific classification Domain ...
Bones from all five moa species located in the upper South Island were found. As well as the remains of numerous butchered moa, seals , porpoises , the extinct Haast's eagle , Eyles' harrier , New Zealand swan and New Zealand raven , kurī (Maori dogs), tuatara , kiore , shellfish such as pipi , pāua , cockles , and marine bones from eels ...
Traditionally, matau, or fishhooks, were carved from bone, ivory, shell, wood, or pounamu; composite hooks were also common. [3] [4] They came in several different forms. There are multiple apparently functional matau forms, but the functions of some are not known. [3] [5] Some were plain and utilitarian; others highly ornate. They were worn as ...
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal, human bone, moa bone, estuarine shells and moa eggshell has produced a wide range of date estimates, from the early 13th to the early 15th centuries, many of which might be contaminated by "inbuilt age" from older carbon which was eaten or absorbed by the sampled organisms.
Timber was formed into houses, fencepoles, pouwhenua, containers, taiaha, tool handles and waka (canoe).Carving tools were made from stone, preferably the very hard pounamu (greenstone).
Notably, an ancient midden containing moa bone has been found. [5] Captain Cook anchored off Moturua in 1769. French explorer Marion Du Fresne and his crew set up temporary camp on the island in 1772. [6] In World War II, the Royal New Zealand Navy operated a mine control station in Army Bay of Moturua.
The Whanganui Regional Museum in Whanganui, New Zealand, has an extensive collection of natural and human-history objects.The emphasis is on items from the Manawatu-Wanganui region, but the collection also includes objects of national and international significance, such as Pacific tapa, ceramics from Asia and Cyprus, and moa bones from nearby Makirikiri Swamp.
How he killed Matoka-rau-tāwhiri is dependent on where the tale is told, but, he won in the end, and used the ogre's bones to make spears. He soon found out though, that Wahieroa's bones were lying with Tāwhaki's old enemies, the ponaturi. In order to get to the ponaturi, Rātā had to build a canoe. Rātā set about chopping down the tree ...