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Modern New Zealand archaeology has clarified of the origin and dates of the earliest migrations, establishing firmly that Māori were the first people to settle New Zealand, in line with Māori oral history.
The stories are organised in a genealogical framework: Hineahuone – the first human, made from the soil of the earth. Māui – the mythical character who ‘fished up’ the North Island, which is known as Te Ika-a-Māui (Māui’s fish). The South Island was his canoe and Stewart Island his anchor stone.
Some early visitors, who studied items such as headdresses and carvings, thought Māori ancestors might be ancient Greeks or Egyptians. One artist painted a Māori as a Roman warrior. Christian missionaries suggested that Māori ancestors were Jewish, belonging to the Lost Tribes of Israel.
The following story was written by Hoani Nahe, a Ngāti Maru (Hauraki) elder of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He writes graphically of a people called the patupaiarehe and the tūrehu, who inhabited the land prior to the arrival of the Polynesian peoples. <...
Hineahuone – the first human, made from the soil of the earth. Māui – the mythical character who ‘fished up’ the North Island, which is known as Te Ika-a-Māui (Māui’s fish). The South Island was his canoe and Stewart Island his anchor stone. Ancestors from the natural world.
Aug 10, 2016 · An age in which the original occupying peoples were there to be pinned and classified like flora and fauna, the early sketches of Māori that are as fanciful and delicate as a botanist’s ...
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Jun 17, 2024 · Experts have previously told AAP FactCheck that scientific, archaeological and social evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that Maori were the first peoples to reach NZ in about 1300.
