224: Questions...

No one was here when Maori arrived around 1280 (well some say around 1280), others say more progressively. Where did they come from? They came from Polynesia of course. All they knew was Polynesians customs, tools, weapons, designs, clothing, ways and religion. They knew nothing else.

Why is it then, that as soon as they arrived here, their art, weapons, tools, and designs, all 'suddenly' changed. Why is it, they didn't continue with what every single one of them that arrived had grown up with and used? Was it because they saw something new here when they encountered the few original indigenous peoples scattered in small enclaves around the country like Pelorus, Waikato coast down to the Taranaki and a few other minor locations? Why would they suddenly produce things foreign to them and if it wasn't the pre-inhabitants they dispossessed of the lands. and eventually their lives, what forces caused this change?

• Why is the Patu shape that only occurs here match that of the ancient Batu of Taiwan?

• Why the spirals, which were almost never used in Polynesia?

• Why the Taiha, the Wahaika and the amazing Kotiate weapon designs?

• Why carve deities different to that of their origin?

• How did they find pounamu and learn what it was and how to fashion it within just 30 years of arriving here?.... When they arrived in the north island, not the south.

• Why are so many implements and artifacts that are 600-800 years old already look unlike anything else found in Polynesia? Spears, a bow, simian creatures, clava style implements (Moriori), tribrach designs, a serpentine carved bird, spike creatures in wood carvings, bone and shell carving never repeated in Maori culture...?

And there are more questions as well as more impliments and carving... let alone a femur bone from an 8'2" female from a supposed tall tribe near Port Waikato.