COLLECTED FROM THE NATIVES OF MURIHIKU. (SOUTHLAND, NEW ZEALAND.) by H. BEATTIE. 1918. AN EARLIER CANOE. After having given the Waitaha...

Day after day, I feel myself slowing down, what does it mean? The air has changed, it's getting harder to breathe, or so it would seem...

Yes, we are still on this, and for a good reason. It is easy for an academic to condemn such comparisons from the perspective of 2021...

At one time Europeans (and others) kept slaves. It was almost accepted practice then - it isn’t now. At one time Maori kept slaves. It...

For the uneducated in ocean going travel and looking at the fact that Melanesia is closer to NZ than Polynesia, you'd be right to at...

We don't go much for these legends. But that doesn't mean these people, or a form of them, didn't exist, we are more sceptical for the...

In late November 2020 a group of Moriori trustees attended a ceremony at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to receive a whalebone taonga...

Maori have been fighting each other since 1350. Many battles, some very famous, are recorded. All were with clubs and spears. Ngati Hotu...

The above carving (known as Tangonge) has been debated by many, including us. In the early days many believed it not to be of Maori...

A skull which has an unquestionable bearing on the subject, was deposited in the Whanganui Museum in 1913. It was found at Te Maire, an...