Brief Version: The missionary William Colenso met Maori near Whangarei using this bell about 1836 as a kohua (iron pot) to cook potatoes....

Burial styles differ in Aotearoa. If you go to Australia the Aborigines have one style because they were isolated and of just one stock...

Study of Lapita skeletons on Vanuatu suggest that the older people were of Asian and Polynesian origin rather than Melanesian. This would...

If you have been following us for a while you will remember some interesting artifacts found in the Nelson and Marlborough areas at the...

The United Kingdom, when Aotearoa was first sighted, still allowed slavery. Slavery was a world-wide scourge on mankind. In was Denmark...

First of all, the Polynesian version of what we call tiki are stone statues. Where the notion to carve them as pendants came from, no one...

It has been a matter of discussion among scientists and others, as to whether the Maori ever knew the Moa (Dinornis) as a living bird. It...

Unlike European thought (where people own parcels of land), in Māori thinking the land is regarded as a mother to the people. In fact the...

Many of you may already know this story but many hundreds more may have only followed stories on Facebook or explored recent articles. As...

The term is regarded as meaning ‘people of the land’ (original inhabitants) according to Maori. These words also mean: Tangata: Human,...