Culture of New Zealand
protected New fought in Korea in
Zealand against the 1950s and in
Japan during the Vietnam in the
war in the Pacific 1960s
INVENTIONS
In 1893, New State pensions
Zealand became and state housing
the first country for workers were
to give women offered first in
the vote New Zealand
MAORI ART
Carving
Tattooing
Weaving
Painting
WHAKAIRO
CARVING
Wood
Houses, fencepoles
Taiaha traditional
weapon, tool handles
Stone
Tools
Bones
Fish hooks, needles
Performed by men only
TA MOKO
TATTOO
Permanent body and
face marking
Status and rank
Attractiveness
TRADITIONA
L TEXTILES
Pake/Hieke a rain cloak
for winter
Piupiu a grass skirt
Korowai, kaitaka, kahu
huruhuru and kahu kur
fine cloaks
PAINTING
Concentrated mostly on landscape and Mori
subjects
KAPA HAKA
MAORI PERFORMING ART