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 * = Early Maori Navigation =
 * ~ [[image:http://www.teara.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/EA01C7FD-C5E4-4A86-9213-9E2499062A30/81445/a1596aart.jpg link="http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/IdeasOfMaoriOrigins/5/ENZ-Resources/Standard/2/en"]]

‘The legend of the voyage to New Zealand’
Paintings such as this helped to popularise the myth of a "Great Fleet" for decades. [|How did early Maori actually arrive in Aotearoa?] ||~ ||
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[|Using the Stars to navigate the South Pacific]
= [|Ocean Birds and Land birds] = If navigators knew what to look for, the sea was full of clues when land was nearby. ||

[|How did the early Polynesians travel from island group to island group?] || Among Māori tribes there are [|many oral traditions about ancient peoples and gods who inhabited Aotearoa] from the beginning of time. || media type="custom" key="4101709" ||
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 * ~ =Hunting and harvesting food =

The sea and the forest were seen as the two food baskets of the traditional Māori economy. || [|Fishing lure] [|What were early maori fish hooks made out of?] || [|Fishing Nets] || [|How were birds kept to be eaten weeks later?] || [|What were some of the ways that early Maori caught birds?] || [|Maori Fire torch] ||
 * [[image:http://www.teara.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/3BA8E9C5-BD19-41D6-8586-DFB2C96F053F/108305/p5093wmu.jpg width="187" height="328"]]
 * [[image:http://www.teara.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/98532B82-0B3E-49DB-A12F-A7AFD204C533/205104/p11956atl.jpg width="288" height="200"]]
 * = Changing the Landscape = ||
 * [[image:http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/images/Mao05TeA/Mao05TeA040%28h800%29.jpg width="324" height="360" link="http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/images/Mao05TeA/Mao05TeA040%28h800%29.jpg"]]
 * [[image:http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/images/Mao05TeA/Mao05TeA040%28h800%29.jpg width="324" height="360" link="http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/images/Mao05TeA/Mao05TeA040%28h800%29.jpg"]]

[|What did early Maori use fire for?]
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