Adze (Toiki) handle with Punamu blade

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1 Maori Toanga

2 Adze (Toiki) handle with Punamu blade

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5 Whao (small chisels) Tikaro (gouges) Pounamu was lashed to short straight handles and tapped with a wooden mallet.

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7 Obsidian (mata) edge tools Kota (scrapers) and maripi (knives) Pounamu

8 Tā Rakau (Mallets)

9 Wiri (drill points)

10 Hoanga (grindstones) and Kani (rasps Examples show both fine and coarse grained tools. Sand and water were used as grinding agents between the grindstone and tool and files)

11 Ta*oo chisels

12 PATUA Totara bark basket Totara bark baskets were made from a single piece of totara bark. A Patua( food basket) was used to hold manu huahua (birds preserved in their own fat). Patua were commonly seen in large numbers at feasts. Such delicacies were the food of chiefs and visitors

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14 PUTU MUAWERE Stone pounders are used to soken the flax (muka) fibers from the Herekeke (flax), the sok silky Muka is used for the weaving of fine (Korowai) cloaks, stripped flax fiber was between with patu muka unnl sok and pliable. Putu Mukawere made from volcanic Andesite from Taranaki

15 Dyes are prepeared from tanekaha bark (brown) Raurekau (yellow) or mud (black) Fiber (muku) for making decoranve kete Titoki berries were packed into containers then twisted to squeeze out the oil to be used for the hair

16 KETE Dyes are prepeared from tanekaha bark (brown) Raurekau (yellow) or mud (black) Fiber (muku) for making decoranve kete

17 Basket

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20 Matau Fish hooks Usually carved fro large bones (Moa)

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22 Huge seine nets could be more than a kilometer long and 8 to 10 meters deep. A single haul might take several thousand fish which where shared out amongst the tribe

23 Bodkin (Auwai)

24 Ripi Bone levers used to prize shellfish from rocks

25 A tame kaka held by a ring (poria) on its leg calls from its perch (hoko) to avract other birds for capture.

26 Waka Kererū (Waikaremoana) Kererū (pigeons) gather in early winter to feed on ripe miro berries. Troughs of water were placed high in the trees for the thirsty birds, aker other sources of water nearby were covered over. To drink, they must put their heads through a noose.

27 Matu Long spears were used to take forest birds such as Kereru, tui and Kaka. Most spears were 4 to 6 meters long, but could be up to 10 meters. The preferred Nmber was tawa which splits easily with straight grain. The resinous heartwood of Kahakatea or Rimu was also used. The points made of bone, hardwood or a snngray barb was lashed to the end. Birds were taken at their best as they fed on seasonally available berries and nectar baring flowers. The hunter worked from the ground or pla[orm in tall trees. The spear was eased into place then jabbed upwards

28 Makoi (spear points) made from bone. (Note the double ring on the bovom right, a Kākā pōria (leg ring). The large ring would be for the parrot leg, and the smaller to avach a leg cord. See below - Don ) Maori were excellent fowlers. Birds were snared or speared in great numbers for food. The most favoured birds were kereru (wood pigeons), NN (muvonbirds, or sooty shearwaters), and tui, kaka, kakapo and kea (parakeets). Dogs may also have been used to hunt for the flightless birds such as weka (woodhens) and kiwi.

29 Fire making kit Kaurima (sncks) from hard matai are rubbed briskly in a kaunon grooved baven to create smoldering sawdust. Tinder was then applied to the smoking area and gently blown on to produce fire.

30 Maripi Knife with sharks teeth bound to handle used to cut up whales,

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