The contemporay image of the New Zealand Koru on this greeting card symbolises New Life, New Beginnings, Growth, Peace and Harmony. © Peter KarstenThe inside of the card has been left blank for your own personal message.

NZ Natives know about Kraken and Sea Dragons too.

From NZTE's Māori Cultural Kit for people wanting to do business with Māori organisations, a map showing tribal boundaries of New Zealand's Māori iwi.

These are three of the more common tāniko weaving designs. The names of these designs vary from tribe to tribe, and in any case are often purely functional and not descriptive. Tāniko expert Hirini [no-lexicon]Moko[/no-lexicon] Mead says, 'The names used could be as irrational as those ...

Core Maori values and principles

The Treaty of Waitangi is an inherent part of our practice where Tikanga and te reo are woven into the fabric of our day...here are our karakia to open and close the day.

As the young Princess Piki is appointed the first Māori queen, Te Atairangikaahu, in 1966, the solemnity of the occasion is evident on her face. She is about to experience the whakawahinga ceremony, in which a bible is held over her head while traditional expressions are recited. The same ...

The Pouwhenua, or carved wooden post, in front of Christchurch City Council's Civic Offices, New Zealand

Young Maori man alongside the doorway of a pataka (Maori storehouse) with taha (Maori calabashes made from the fruit of the gourd plant) for holdin...

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Waipapa a Iwi marae in Mōhaka is distinguished by its historic round meeting house, Rongomaiwahine. The origins of this meeting house are unclear – one source says it was built in 1885, another claims it replicates the round house built by Māori religious leader Rua Kēnana at Maungapō...