1800s
Clothing:
The early Europeans in the 1800s would wear clothes made from house women. Women wore bonnets, aprons, corsets and long dresses. While men wore, long coats, scarfs (sometimes), hats, long sleeve white shirts, long socks, tight 3/4ths, and black boots. The materials used for making these clothes were: Cotton, lace, leather, wool, and sometimes thread.
The Maori men and women wore nothing waist-up and also there were nearly always bare feet. Women wore skirts made out of flax or cloth. Men wore cloaks, all sorts of them. Sometimes made out of Kiwi skin, or even seal skin. Some names of these cloaks include;Kahu, Kahu kekeno, Kahu kiwi. Maori men and woman also had tattoos on their faces and sometime on their bodies. The women had tattoos on their chins called a moku while on the other hand, men had tattoos on their whole faces.
Transport:
The early Europeans would travel by horseback, cart or boats. If they had to travel like this, the Europeans would build dirt roads to make it easier for the horses and carts.
The Maori instead would mainly travel only by foot.
View:
In the 1800s there wasn't really much to see, there were no buildings and no roads either. All there was was lots of forests and it was until the late 1800s when the Europeans started cutting down forests (which included; fern, rimu, kauri, totara and kahikatea), and started making small houses.
But since the Maori already had s
Living:
The Smales church in East Tamaki was built in the 1860s by reverend Gideon Smales, and it was named St Johns church. They built this church because the early Europeans were very religious in the 1800s.
Diet:
Before the Europeans arrived, the early Maori had a diet of basically anything they came across. Eg: Fish, Birds, aruhe (fern root) and many other foodstuffs. Also including kumara, which had been passed on throughout the pacific from Maori ancestors. When James Cook arrived in 1769, he gave cabbage, turnips and potatoes. In the same year, a french explorer named Jean François Marie de Surville brought wheat, rice and peas. On Cooks second journey to New Zealand, he brought pigs and more potatoes.
Trading:
In 1840, when the treaty was signed between the Europeans and the Maori, the items that they traded included: Maori; Weapons, food and lots of other tools and equipment's.
Facts:
The early Europeans in the 1800s would wear clothes made from house women. Women wore bonnets, aprons, corsets and long dresses. While men wore, long coats, scarfs (sometimes), hats, long sleeve white shirts, long socks, tight 3/4ths, and black boots. The materials used for making these clothes were: Cotton, lace, leather, wool, and sometimes thread.
The Maori men and women wore nothing waist-up and also there were nearly always bare feet. Women wore skirts made out of flax or cloth. Men wore cloaks, all sorts of them. Sometimes made out of Kiwi skin, or even seal skin. Some names of these cloaks include;Kahu, Kahu kekeno, Kahu kiwi. Maori men and woman also had tattoos on their faces and sometime on their bodies. The women had tattoos on their chins called a moku while on the other hand, men had tattoos on their whole faces.
Transport:
The early Europeans would travel by horseback, cart or boats. If they had to travel like this, the Europeans would build dirt roads to make it easier for the horses and carts.
The Maori instead would mainly travel only by foot.
View:
In the 1800s there wasn't really much to see, there were no buildings and no roads either. All there was was lots of forests and it was until the late 1800s when the Europeans started cutting down forests (which included; fern, rimu, kauri, totara and kahikatea), and started making small houses.
But since the Maori already had s
Living:
The Smales church in East Tamaki was built in the 1860s by reverend Gideon Smales, and it was named St Johns church. They built this church because the early Europeans were very religious in the 1800s.
Diet:
Before the Europeans arrived, the early Maori had a diet of basically anything they came across. Eg: Fish, Birds, aruhe (fern root) and many other foodstuffs. Also including kumara, which had been passed on throughout the pacific from Maori ancestors. When James Cook arrived in 1769, he gave cabbage, turnips and potatoes. In the same year, a french explorer named Jean François Marie de Surville brought wheat, rice and peas. On Cooks second journey to New Zealand, he brought pigs and more potatoes.
Trading:
In 1840, when the treaty was signed between the Europeans and the Maori, the items that they traded included: Maori; Weapons, food and lots of other tools and equipment's.
Facts:
- In 1840 the Europeans and the Maori signed the treaty.
- In 1893 woman got the right to vote
- In 1875 Flat Bush there was a new school on Baverstock Road called Flat Bush school.