A Hoe!
The first peaceful meetings between Māori and Europeans took place in 1769, when James Cook landed in the Tairāwhiti region.
About this resource
Series: School Journal Level 2 June 2018
Reading year level: 4
Category: Fiction
Topics: “A Hoe!”, art, canoes, colonisation, design, drawing, Endeavour, exhibitions, first meetings, Gisborne, history, hoe, James Cook, kōwhaiwhai, Māori,New Zealand history, “No Ordinary Bird”, paddles, painting, Pawa, “Scent”, “Sixth Sense”, Sydney Parkinson, symbolism, Tairāwhiti Museum, taonga, Te Hā, “Te Hoe Nukuroa”, te kurī a Pawa, tradition, Tupaia, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, waka, Whareongaonga
A Hoe
Words by Steve Gibbs
During those meetings, Māori traded a number of painted hoe (paddles) for cloth, seeds, potatoes, and other items. The paddles are decorated with the earliest examples of what we now call kōwhaiwhai. They ended up in museums around the world.