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1) According to the Maori mythology, the tattoo began with a love story enter a young man who was called Mataora (what means " face of the vitality ") and a young princess of the world of the darkness of the name of Niwareka. As proves him(it) the archaeology, it is to the oriental Polynesian culture that New Zealand owes the art of the tattoo. We can find scissors in bones used for the tattoo in archeological sites of various times in New Zealand, as well as in sites of the former Polynesia is. But if the Maori practised the tattoo, there is no proof that the people Moriori made him..

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Literally, the term " haka " wants to say "dance" whatever it is.
There was numerous sorts of haka in the pre-European time, according to the opportunities. There was hakas of singing and enjoyment, and hakas of war, hakas of "utu", (vengeance) which we danced before leaving to the battle.

The hakas of war was two types: the one that we danced without weapon, generally to express personal or collective feelings, and which(who) was him " haka taparahi ", and the one that we danced with weapons, him " haka peruperu "
It was a way to call upon the god of the war, and to warn the enemy of the fate who waited for him. This haka was danced with wild expressions of the face - grimaces, pulled tongue, exorbités eyes, growls and shouts, by shaking war weapons.