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By Russell Stone
The isthmus among harbours on which sleek Auckland now stands and which Maori known as Tamaki-makau-rau was once a digital inhabitants void while Hobson acquired it in 1840 from the resident proprietors because the website of his new capital. however it used to be reputed in former occasions to be the main densely settled area in Aotearoa. This e-book explains that paradox. It lines the historical past of the area from the beginnings of cost approximately 8 hundred years in the past as much as 1840. It makes use of parallel and infrequently corrobative models drawn from Maori oral traditions and Land court docket files, and from the paintings of archaeologists and pre-historians.
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His conclusion was that the first settlers of Tamaki, and of a considerable expanse north and south of the isthmus, belonged to ‘one great tribe called . . Ngaoho’. 68 Fenton went on to observe that, in time, Ngaiwi on the isthmus divided themselves yet again and threw off a further tribe called Waiohua, though these two names seemed interchangeable among members of these two isthmus tribes. The limited and (as Fenton admitted)69 sometimes ‘conflicting evidence’ which the judge used to support his version of Tamaki’s tribal origins, scarcely justified what he so confidently asserted.
1600–1800 I The conquest, in the mid-eighteenth century, of the resident tribes of the isthmus by Ngati Whatua invaders was a great watershed in the history of Maori Auckland. Over the previous century and a half, the many hapu living on the isthmus and in the areas immediately adjacent were loosely grouped under the mana of the chief of the most powerful tribe, latterly called Waiohua. 1 Maungawhau was his pa; that was where he died. However, his even more powerful descendant, Kiwi Tamaki, made nearby Maungakiekie his pa.
Auckland city libraries 30 of limited resources and centuries of technological isolation to create what Sir Peter H. 8 Craftsmen took meticulous care over detail, regardless of the size of the object being carved. Canoes over twenty metres in length had their intricately patterned prows and stern-post pieces, showing an almost filigree delicacy no less than that to be found in small items, such as handles for tools and weapons, or the exterior surfaces of miniature treasure boxes. Womanly decorative crafts, more culturally restricted one admits, found expression, nevertheless, in such activities as weaving, plaiting and cloak-making.