164: Unusual burial customs of the MoriOri
The Moriori were supposed to be from the main islands of Aotearoa and fled to Rehoku. It is suggested they are as Polynesian as anyone...
IJ
Dec 12, 2020
Sidestep: Central Otago early history
The tangata whenua of Central Otago The first who lived in the South Island were the Eroero (or Maweroero) people, who had fair skin and...
IJ, MD & YM
Nov 28, 2020
163: The Tch’akat Henu
The first inhabitants of the Chatham Islands were the 'tchakat henu' or Moriori. Tchakat henu, is a Moriori phrase meaning 'tangata...
IJ
Nov 14, 2020
Political: Money or Mana
In the late 1850’s a great political rally of Maori was held in the Wairarapa district, North Island, where it was decided that...
MD
Oct 31, 2020
162: The Okia Artefact 2 (Significant update)
Earlier in 2016, not long after we started all this, we submitted an article on this unique artifact found on the Otago Peninsula. This...
IJ & MD
Oct 17, 2020
Sidestep: Those sprung from the earth
The Aborigine, the Indigenous, those native to... the Maruiwi and the Urukehu, and whatever other name they go by... On 9th September...
YM
Oct 3, 2020
161: The Eroero (Melanesians?)
A learned kaumatua of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, at Rapaki, Canterbury, provided this traditional information concerning the successive iwi or...
IJ
Sep 19, 2020
Sidestep: A copy of something that never existed?
(This is article #316 since we started in Jan 2016) Many may know of this stone found in Northland. It was said, by some, to be an...
IJ
Sep 5, 2020
160: Skeletal bone colours
Just to explore something new, here are three photos showing bone colour of the femur portion we found that came in with the fill from...
IJ
Aug 22, 2020
Sidestep: How much land was sold by Maori
We mentioned a few years back, a case in the South Island where a chief sold a huge parcel of land on the West Coast to Europeans that...
YM
Aug 8, 2020
