2 posts tagged “maori”
A little holiday reading while in between sight seeing/adventures in New Zealand....interesting perspective on the possible/actual experiences of white women captured by Maori in the 1800s, based on rather scant source material, but interesting as also explains the cultural clashes between visiting traders, sealers, whalers and other Europeans/English that surrounded these captures, the slaughter (and subsequent consumption) of those white men (women and children too) and those that were spared to be taken as slaves/adoptees of the Whanau, some women in their twenties being taken as wives of chiefs, of course there were clashes, captures and casualties on both sides.
