The earliest Māori map to have survived was drawn by Tukitahua of Ōruru in 1791. Tukitahua and Ngahuruhuru were taken from their home in Northland to Norfolk Island, where it was hoped that they would be able to teach the convicts about flax weaving.

2018年8月13日 · This first Māori map of Aotearoa was drawn by the chief Tuki te Terenui Whare Pirau in 1793. It was drawn in chalk on the floor of Government House on Norfolk island.

Find your way to the tribal marae of Aotearoa New Zealand – through maps, information and photographs – through the digital gateway of Māori Maps.

Māori had no need for print maps – theirs was an oral cartography. Unfolding the Map, though, does show one of the very first maps made by Māori. When Europeans did visit or settle they had certain priorities. Firstly they needed to sail here and make it safely ashore. Secondly they looked for shelter, food, and security.

The Polynesian ancestors of Māori successfully reached and settled New Zealand around 200 years before Columbus ventured across the Atlantic. They sailed thousands of kilometres to get here and all the evidence indicates intent.

Māori had been living in New Zealand for nearly 400 years before Abel Tasman’s arrival in 1642. They had named every feature of the landscape, forming an oral map, often told as a narrative or genealogy. In some cases posts or piles of rocks were used to …

2021年7月13日 · Find your way to the tribal marae of Aotearoa New Zealand – through maps, information and photographs – through the digital gateway of Māori Maps. https://maorimaps.com/map TITLE: Māori Maps

The online, digital Ngāi Tahu Atlas includes over 1,000 traditional Māori place names that have been fully referenced from whānau manuscripts, published books, 19th century maps, newspaper articles, and a vast array of unpublished material.

We have unlocked the footprints and settlements of our settler and Māori forebears into a virtual landscape for future generations to view and interact with.

2025年1月19日 · In Māori culture, a great pā represented the mana and strategic ability of an iwi (tribe) as personified by a rangatira (chiefs). Pā are located in various defensible locations around the territory (rohe) of an iwi to protect fertile plantation sites and food supplies.