Statues typical of many of the pa's we visited

This one was at the Tamaki Maori Village. The white weapon is a tool used to bludgeon and decapitate. The facial expression, including protruding tongue, is to intimidate enemies.

Rotorua: Tourist (and Maori) Centre of New Zealand

April 8th 2006
Rotorua is probably the one place that most tourists make sure to visit when coming to New Zealand. This is the literal hotbed of Maori culture, because this is the bountiful geothermic area that was so abundant in its riches for the earliest Maori people to arrive in New Zealand, more than 200 years before the Big Discovery made by Christopher ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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