[Ueka] and kiwi
Posted by c9 | Filed under New Zealand
New Zealand is an island nation that floats on the South Pacific, and a peculiar animal to New Zealand lives from isolation and existence, and it has developed with other continents and islands.
Strangeness that is called fur seal, whale, kiwi, penguin, and other [ueka]?..becoming it.. [tori] invites the person who visits.
In New Zealand, there was no animal that became a foreign enemy from hoary antiquity for birds. Therefore, is it strange for a moment in us?So-called “Flightless bird” that [nimo] can think lives a lot. In the inside, there is a seed that has already been exterminated like “Moa” that was called “[**tori] of the phantom”, too. However, there are birds such as kiwis (Fruit “Kiwi” of the same name is called a name given because it looks like this bird well) and [ueka] who are still energetically alive in New Zealand, too.
[Ueka] degenerates the wing, and is classified into “Running birds” like a brown chicken at first glance. It has a strong leg as well as the chicken. It often approached the person by the bird that fulls of curiosity, and it lovely? It is a bird. There are four subspecies, and it lives almost in the whole area about New Zealand. When it visits New Zealand, it can surely meet them.
The wing and the rectrix degenerate completely and eyes have degenerated because it is nocturnal even though the kiwi is a bird of about 50 centimeters in the total length that cannot fly, too. A sharp sense of smell and a long beak develop, and it begins to look for the earthworm of a large favorite dish well. The whole body is covered with a long wing like the hair, and the people in New Zealand love this bird by calling them “Kiwi”.
Tags: and running birds, kiwi, moa, New Zealand, [ueka]
Maori culture
Posted by c9 | Filed under New Zealand
New Zealand was an uninhabited island that had been covered with the jungle in old times of ancient times. [**tori] “Moa” said that it had exterminated now lived.
Afterwards, they were people Polynesian where it was called, the first having immigrated to this island was “Maori”. It is estimated by them that it was about in the ninth century that Kitashima in New Zealand arrived first. They who had arrived getting on the canoe came to live making a small village along the sea. It is said that a big animal starts only, [moieta] [**tori], and the moa in few New Zealand, the seal and the fur seal are hunted, and the sweet potato etc. were grown. They to were “People who ate the moa” and calling ･･･ It is consuming of the moa at last ･･･ Even though it was not able to be helped because they also lived ･･･ The moa was driven in even to extermination.
Afterwards, they came to fight among each tribe until 13?16 century. And, the fort village that was called “[Pa]” was formed, and the unique culture that was able to be called the prototype of the Maori culture was built.
However, Dutch (Abel Tasman) will discover this island for the first time as an European in 1642, and Kitashima’s Maori’s people’s life be cornered in the modernization.
In a New Zealand government, there is a Maori ministry, and the assembly member frame four of Maori is secured for the assembly now. The Maori word is taught in elementary and junior high schools. Maori’s culture is caught as an important part that composes a New Zealand culture in New Zealand.
Tags: and Polynesia, Maori, moa, New Zealand, [pa]
