I was researching what the old name for Dunedin was. It turns out it is Ōtepoti. Otepoti is said to mean ‘a corner of the harbour’ - due...

There has been a lot in the news about Colonialism and slavery lately. Europe, India, China, Iran, Korea, Arabia, Spain, Germany, Hawaii,...

Where did the Maori patu come from? There was no such club in the Pacific Islands. We have long said the patu was something the...

New Zealand nearly ended up French – half of it anyway. In 1838 French whaling captain Jean Langlois bought most of Banks Peninsula, just...

The tiki has a name familiar around the pacific but always refers to a stone statue not a neck ornament...except in NZ. So where did this...

Cook arrived in Northland in 1769 but he wasn’t the only European to arrive here. The French were keen on all new lands and the Maori...

The above item was found on the Otago Peninsula. It is made of red argillite and is 15cm long. We have said many times that NZ reveals a...

Obsidian was known to the Maori as Tuhua, the name they also gave to Mayor Island. According to traditional history there were four types...

Ancients chants reveal that around 1250 A.D. a warrior priest named Pa’ao arrived in Hawaii from Tahiti. After some months of traveling...

The Polynesians did a lot of voyaging within a specific window and not much before or after. This is mainly due to natural climate...