CELEBRATING RUSSIA’S FORGOTTEN EXPEDITION
Though titled ‘War Dance’ by the expedition’s artist Pavel Mikhaylov, the haka he sketched was more ceremonial. The Maori at Totaranui (Queen Charlotte Sound) were traders, not warriors, and their greeting, ‘Ki nga reko, ki nga reko, to wai kiri nei ropa’ (For the whites, for the whites, your sweat for this company) was a […]
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