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This is a list of Māori plant common names.. Akakura; Akatea; Akeake; Aruhe; Hangehange; Harakeke; Heketara; Horoeka; Horokaka; Horopito; Houhere; Houpara; Hutu ...
Tāne-nui-ā-rangi, the wharenui at Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland Inside Tāne-nui-ā-rangi A modern wharenui at Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. A wharenui ([ˈɸaɾɛnʉ.i]; literally "large house") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a marae.
Hōne Heke (centre) wearing a short checked flax and feather cloak and flax skirt. His uncle Kawiti is on the right in a flax cloak. New Zealand flax describes the common New Zealand perennial plants Phormium tenax and Phormium colensoi, known by the Māori names harakeke and wharariki respectively.
A meeting house on a marae. Many Māori words or phrases that describe Māori culture have become assimilated into English or are used as foreign words, particularly in New Zealand English, and might be used in general (non-Māori) contexts. Some of these are:
Rongo is generally portrayed as the creator of the kūmara, a plant associated with peace; probably because the intense cultivation it needed was best performed in times of peace. In Ngāti Awa traditions, Rongo is a son of Tāne and father of the kūmara, but a man named Rongo-māui travels to Whānui , from whom he steals the kūmara and ...
Sophora tetraptera foliage Sophora tetraptera flowers, foliage and seed pods. Most species of kōwhai grow to around 8 m high and have fairly smooth bark with small leaves. S. microphylla has smaller leaves (0.5–0.7 cm long by 0.3–0.4 cm wide) and flowers (2.5–3.5 cm long) than S. tetraptera, which has leaves of 1–2 cm long and flowers that are 3–5 cm long.
Rongoā was one of the Māori cultural practices targeted by the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, [2] until lifted by the Maori Welfare Act 1962. [3] In the later part of the 20th century there was renewed interest in Rongoā as part of a broader Māori renaissance. [4] [1] Rongoā can involve spiritual, herbal and physical components.
Cordyline australis, commonly known as the cabbage tree, [3] or by its Māori name of tī or tī kōuka, is a widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand.. It grows up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall [4] with a stout trunk and sword-like leaves, which are clustered at the tips of the branches and can be up to 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches) long.