Resources
Glossary
AGRICULTURE
- ko (wooden spade)
- timutimu (hoe)
CLOTHING
- kaitaka (cloak with ornamental border)
- kahu huruhuru (feather cloak)
- kete (flax basket)
- kono (flaxfood basket)
- korowai (cloak)
- pake (rain cape)
- rapaki (mat kilt)
- taniko (ornamental weaving)
CONSTRUCTION
- EPA (end wall supports for a meeting house)
- KOWHAIWHAI (painted roof rafters inside a meeting house)
- KORUPE (window lintel)
- PARE (door lintel)
- POUPOU (side wall support)
- TEKOTEKO (three dimensional freestanding figure)
- TUKUTUKU (weaved panels between the poupou)
- WHAKAWAE (door jambs)
MUSIC
- Koauau (small flute)
- nguru (nose flute)
- pahu (drum)
- pakuru (clappers)
- poiawhio (gourd poi)
- porotiti (ultra sound)
- porutu (long koaua)
- pukaea (long wooden trumpet)
- purerehua ("bull roarer")
- putatara (conch trumpet)
- pute hue (gourd trumpet)
- putorino (large flute)
- whio (whistle)
ORNAMENTS
- heru (hair comb)
- kapeu (hooked pendant)
- kuru (ear pendant)
- manaia (bone pendant)
- matau (hook pendant)
- pekapeka (neck pendant)
- tiki (neck pendant)
RECEPTACLES
- korere (food funnel)
- kumete (wooden food bowl)
- papahou (feather box)
- taha (calabash)
- waka huia (box for huia feathers)
TOYS
- kororohu (childs "bull roarer")
- manu (kite)
- potaka (spinning top)
TRANSPORT
- hoe (paddle)
- hoe urunga (steering paddle)
- poito (net float)
- tauihu (bow ornament)
- taurapa (stern ornament)
- tiheru (water bailer)
- waka (canoe)
WARFARE
- koikoi (small spear)
- kotiate (lobbed club)
- patu (club)
- patuki (pointed club)
- pouwhenua (two handed fighting staff)
- taiaha (Two handed staff)
- tao (spear)
- tewhatewha (signalling staff)
- toki (adze)
- toki pou tangata (ceremonial adze)
- wahaika (curved club)
- wahangohi (curved lobbed club)
