Awa | River, stream, gully, gorge |
Haka | Dance performance |
Hapū | Kinship group, clan |
Hine-nui-te-pō | Great Woman of Night/ Goddess of night and death |
Iwi | Tribe |
Kapa Haka | Māori performing arts group |
Kaumātua | Elders, person or people of status within the family |
Kōhine | Young woman/adolescent female |
Koro | Grandfather, male elder |
Kuia | Female elder, grandmother |
Marae | Open area in front of wharenui (often used to describe the whole complex of buildings |
Maunga | Mountain |
Moa | Large, flightless bird (3.6m or 12ft fully extended height) native to New Zealand, now extinct |
Pā | Fortified village, blockade |
Papatūānuku | Earth mother/ land |
Pākehā | New Zealander of European descent |
Pātere | Song of derision |
Pepeha | Tribal proverb or saying |
Pounamu | Greenstone, New Zealand jade |
Pōwhiri /Pōhiri | Maōri welcoming ceremony, ritual of encounter |
Rākau whakapapa | Genealogy staff/rod |
Taiohi Māori | Māori youth/ young people |
Tangata whenua | People of the land; indigenous people |
Ta moko | Tattoo |
Taniwha | Supernatural creature that often lives in lakes, rivers or the sea. Can be guardians but may also have a malign influence on humans |
Tangi (tangihanga) | Funeral |
Tekoteko | Figurehead, carved figure on the gable of the meeting house |
Tiki | A carved figure often worn around the neck |
Urupā | Burial ground, cemetery, graveyard |
Waiata | Song, chant |
Whānau | Family group, extended family |
Wharenui | Meeting house |
Whare Tipuna | Ancestral house |
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