Story: Māori clothing and adornment - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia …
Traditionally, Māori made their clothes and adornments from native plants, and bird and animal skins. There was a great variety of garments, including many kinds of cloaks. Clothing, adornments and even hairstyles showed a lot about a person’s status, and …
Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori - Te Ara: The ...
Traditional Māori dress was both varied and complex. Māori wore a wide range of hairstyles and ornaments, skin colourings and oils, as well as facial or body tattoos. Clothing consisted of shoulder and waist garments, belts and sometimes sandals. People adorned themselves with a range of neck and ear pendants, and carried prized weapons in ...
Ngā taonga tuku iho - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Traditional Māori dress was both varied and complex. Māori wore a wide range of hairstyles and ornaments, skin colourings and oils, as well as facial or body tattoos. Clothing consisted of shoulder and waist garments, belts and sometimes sandals.
Page 5. Practical wear - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Practical wear. Māori constructed and wore practical, protective garments in hardy materials to keep warm and dry. These included rain capes and cloaks made from a variety of materials. Shorter than a cloak, rain capes were covered with hukahuka, strips or shreds of fibre, twined in rows that resembled roof thatching.
Māori clothing and adornment - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New …
The maro, a frontal apron tied around the waist, was perhaps the most common and basic traditional Māori garment, and was worn by both men and women. This example of a woman's maro was given to Gilbert Mair (then a captain in the New Zealand militia) at Maungapōhatu, in the depths of the ...
The symbolic meaning of kākahu (cloaks) – Māori clothing and …
Toi Te Rito Maihi (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu) has a lifetime of experience at traditional Māori weaving. In this video clip she describes the insights she received from an earlier generation of experts into the symbolic significance of woven garments such as …
Page 1. Māori and colonial clothing - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of …
Māori clothes-making. When the Polynesian ancestors of Māori arrived in New Zealand they found that the paper mulberry tree (aute), from which they would have made tapa cloth, was difficult to grow in the cooler climate. Instead, they scraped flax and cabbage-tree leaves and made them into skirts and cloaks, which often also included bird ...
Page 5. Clothing and identity - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New …
New Zealand does not have a specific national dress. Customary Māori clothing is the only form of dress that is distinctive to New Zealand. Kahu (cloaks) give significant mana and honour to official occasions, such as royal tours and state funerals.
Page 3. Weaving traditions and technique - Te Ara: The …
Weaving techniques. Māori cloaks were woven by hand, without the use of a loom. Whatu, the finger weft twining technique used for making fish nets and traps, was adapted to construct garments. Closely packed wefts create a firm textile, while more widely spaced wefts give …
Ngā pueru – prestige garments – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New …
Pauku or pukupuku (literally swelling, inflammation) cloaks were woven with compact rows of whatu patahi (single-pair weft twining) creating a dense fabric. They were worn as protective garments in combat. When immersed in water the fibres expanded, making the …