2. The Maori cut
down trees to
Uses of the forest
make houses.
They also carved
taniwhas with their
When wooden tools.
they shot
down the
birds
they
used
bones for
bracelets
and used
the
feathers
and put
them on
dresses.
3. River foods
Most of the
people would
swim up
stream and
find white They will find
bait off the white bait and
rocks. eels were trapped
in the rocks and
got eaten.
They would try eat fish eggs on
the rocks.
4. Eel and white
bait were
Sea foods
The Cray
trapped and fish (Koura)
eaten by Maori.
have two
forms; fresh
water and
sea water
and they can
be caught
In some through
places using bait
kaimoana and traps.
cannot be
eaten on
beaches- It
must be
taken home
and prepared
for eating
there.
5. Tools The Maori
used muscle
Pounamu shells for
could only be knifes to
got in a few cut the
places in the leaves off
South Island. flax bushes
for
weaving.
The Maori
used whale
bone to make
cloak pins and
combs. The Pounamu
greenstone
was used for
adzes, weapons
and ornaments
and was
greatly
treasured.
6. Hunting
They speared the
birds with wooden
spears that they
made.
The Maori also have
bamboo and get a dart
made out of feathers
then hide in the bushes
and shoot animals.
