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Legend holds that the shape of Hawkes Bay is that of the hei matau, which caught in the fish's side on the beach. The Māori name for the North island, Te Ika a Māui ("The fish of Māui") reflects this legend. For the Māori, the hei matau is taonga (a cultural treasure). It represents not only their land, but also prosperity, fertility, and ...
The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ninamu. [2] Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of ...
It is a very common form in Maori jewellery (possibly only less common than the hei-tiki and hei matau), and is often found worn as a pendant carved from bone or greenstone. Manaia designs vary subtly in form between iwi, though they are often depicted as three-fingered, with these digits representing the trinity of birth, life, and death. A ...
Hinepare, a woman of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe, wearing a hei-tiki Hei-tiki; circa 18th century; nephrite and haliotis shell; height: 10.9 cm (4 1 ⁄ 4 in.); from New Zealand; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA) The hei-tiki (Māori pronunciation: [hɛi ˈtiki], New Zealand English: / h eɪ ˈ t ɪ k i / [1]) is an ornamental pendant of ...
Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira DNZM (13 November 1932 – 16 July 2011) was a New Zealand Māori language proponent, educator, intellectual, artist and writer. [1] Her efforts to revive and revitalise the Māori language (te reo Māori) led to the growth of Kura Kaupapa Māori in New Zealand.
Mātauranga was traditionally preserved through spoken language, including songs, supplemented carving weaving, and painting, including tattoos. [10] Since colonisation, mātauranga has been preserved and shared through writing, first by non-Māori anthropologists and missionaries, then by Māori.
A daughter of Rākaihautū, Te Uhi-tataraiakoa, stayed behind in Te Patunui-o-āio, and became the great grandmother of Toi. [9] Eight generations after Toi there lived Waitaha-nui and after him Waitaha-araki, [14] after whom there came Hāwea-i-te-raki, [e] and finally seven generations later lived Hotumāmoe from Hastings, the founding ancestor of Ngāti Māmoe.
By the 19th century, new commercial groups emerged, and the active social mobility caused the yangban class to expand, resulting in the weakening of the old class system. The Korea government ordered the freedom of government slaves in 1801. The class system of Korea was completely banned in 1894. [215]