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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Maui the Discoverer of Aotearoa

Maui the Discoverer of Aotearoa.

The Ngati-Awa tribe state that Maui was the first ancestor to visit Aotearoa (New Zealand) and that he at once returned to Hawaiki to take " moawe" of Aotearoa to that place. Now the word " maawe" has seveial meanings, one of which is as follows:—When a battle is won, a piece [unclear: of] clothing or hair of a dead [unclear: ene] taken to the priest of the [unclear: vic] tribe who proceeds to "Karakia [unclear: a] it, in order to render the [unclear: e] powerless—kia kore e toa article is called a "maawe."