Term Two Face To Face Flashcards

1
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Tangata

A

People

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2
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Wait a

A

Song

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3
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Karakia

A

Prayer and chant

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4
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Kaumatua

A

Wise elders

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5
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Tamariki

A

Children

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6
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Whakapapa

A

History of the family over generations

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7
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Mana

A

Power prestige authority

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8
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Whenua

A

The land

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9
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Waka

A

Canoe

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10
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Iwi

A

Major tribe

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11
Q

Harakeke and 5 uses

A

Flax

Making twine or rope
Baskets to collect food like berries 
Making rooves on houses 
Medicinal antiseptic put on boils and cuts 
Clothing flax skirts
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12
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Pataka

A

Small building on stilts or poles to store food off the ground

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13
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Cenotaph

A

Memorial for those who died in the war

Example cenotaph at the Auckland museum

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14
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Tangatawhenua

A

People of the land

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15
Q

Atua

A

Gods

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16
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Ranginui

A

Great father of the heavens

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17
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Utu

A

Revenge

Because the Maori carried out their revenge Cook thought they were war like. Also because they carried weapons and lived on fortified Pa

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18
Q

Tapu

A

Sacred or forbidden

Example: The land of their ancestors was tapu (sacred)
Example: women weaving cloaks from flax and feathers was so sacred it was TAPU while it was being made and no one could touch it

Tapu or restrictions could be put in place on an area or a person so it was forbidden to go near them
Example the forest was TAPU

Ceremony to lift a tapu was called a whakanoa

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19
Q

Hui

A

Meeting, talking

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20
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Cannibalism

A

Humans eating humans

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21
Q

Pounamu

A

Greenstone

Very hard stone used to make tools and weapons

22
Q

Taua

A

War

23
Q

Taonga

A

Treasure

Example: pounamu jewellery

24
Q

Taniwha

A

Supernatural creature in Maori stories

Like a dragon

Stories say that taniwha like in Lake Taupo

25
Q

Obsidian

A

Black volcanic glass

often found at pa sites

used to make very sharp cutting tools

26
Q

Kainga

A

Village or home

27
Q

5 features of a KAINGA (village)

A

Central part of all Maori life and community - HAPU and WHANAU lived here

Cluster of buildings made form RAUPO (reeds) tied together. Included PATAKA (building on stilts to store food)

Shared cooking area in the middle -important for social life

Near to crops of Kumara and close to harbours for seafood

Often built on a PA
Close to harakeke which was very important resource for every day life - clothes, building, twine and making fishing nets

28
Q

5 examples of Maori rituals in their social life or dating

A

Singing and dancing were very important

29
Q

What is rangitira ?

A

Chief

30
Q

What does Noa mean ?

A

Normal or Ordinary

31
Q

What does a MOKO mean for women?

A

She is of high rank amongst her people

Like a Maori Princess or Queen

32
Q

What does MOKO mean on a man?

A

This face tattoo is to honour BRAVERY or HIGH ACHIEVEMENT like great hunting

33
Q

What other foreign ships came to New Zealand after the explorers?

A

Whalers and sealers

34
Q

What did whalers and sealers come to NZ for?

A

Seal skins for clothing and hats

Whales for their blubber - boiled in cauldrons to make oil which was used in lamps

35
Q

Did pakeha men marry Maori women and what were they called ?

Name 3 Examples of European men that married Maori women in the 1800s

A

Yes

Pakeha Maori

James Rutherford - got a MOKO for his language skills - and became a chief

Thomas Taylor - an escaped convict/criminal who married and lived as if he was Maori

George Bruce — also a criminal - a very small man who was a pickpocket

36
Q

What is a kaiwhakarite ?

A

A translator helping to interpret English so that the Maori could trade with visiting ships

Famous KAIWHAHERITE was George Bruce the pickpocket pakeha Maori

37
Q

What is a SPAR

A

Straight timber masts to hold sails often made of kauri

Lots of ships visited NZ to trade in SPARS as well as lamp fuel made of WHALE OIL

38
Q

3Things Cook took away from NZ

A

Cloaks

Carved weapons and obsidian tools

Wooden chests

All evidence of MATERIAL CULTURE (things people make)

39
Q

4 main things that Captain Cook left in NZ

A

Potatoes

Pigs - became a main food for Maori

Muskets

DISEASES

  • Venereal disease (sexually transmitted disease) - left women unable to have children
  • MEASLES
  • tuberculosis which caused SCROFULA - a disease in the lymph glands
40
Q

What year did Abel Tasman come to NZ

A

1642

41
Q

Captain cook came to NZ in ??

A

1769 on the ship Endeavour

42
Q

Who was the TAHITIAN priest that came with Cook ?

Why was he useful?

A

TUPAEA

He spoke a language similar to Maori so helped to translate

43
Q

Three things to at people came to NZ to trade ?

A

Flax -for ropes and canvas for sail ships

Lamb fuel / whale blubber

Timber SPARs for ships

44
Q

Cat o nine tails

A

While with nine length of leather each knotted at the end to inflict more damage

Chief Te Ara was flogged with this before the Boyd Massacre

45
Q

What year was the massacre of Boyd

A

1809

46
Q

Who saved the two children and one women called Ann Morley from the Massacre of Boyd?

A

Maori women covered her with a cloak to save the children

47
Q

What happened to all the people that were killed in the massacre of Boyd

A

Celebration HUI and ate all the dead l

48
Q

Where was the massacre of Boyd

A

Whangaroa harbour

49
Q

Who was Samuel Marsden?

A

A Christian missionary

50
Q

Why did Maori like Samuel marsden?

A

Because they brought cows and horses to nz

Set up schools to teach children

BUT tired to stop Maori trading in muskets but the Maori loved the guns

51
Q

What year did 13 maori chiefs sign a petition with the British

A

1831