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Moriori|mɒrɪˈɔərɪ|
[Native word.]
An early Polynesian people of New Zealand, now extinct, who preceded the Maori; associated spec. with the Chatham Islands, where most evidence of their culture is found; also, a member of this people.
1865A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 9 Jan. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. iii. 145, I had a long talk with a genuine Moriori..or real aboriginal of the Chatham islands & of some of the southern parts of New Zealand. 1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xviii. 258 The Moriori population, which, at the time of the discovery of the islands, in 1791, was estimated at over 2,000, must at one time have been very large. 1882T. H. Potts Out in Open 160 The Moriori was robust in figure, tall of stature, not darker in colour, perhaps, than many a Maori, but of a dull dusky hue. 1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 27 The ancient Moriori mother scooped a shallow hole in the earth, and warmed it with embers, and lined it with dry grass and well-scorched ‘kohu kohu’ (moss), to nestle her new-born child in. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) i. ii. 14 The Moriori became extinct as a separate people, but their blood is present in some mixed Maori families. 1950R. Duff Moa-Hunter Period of Maori Culture 15 Moriori, like Maori, is a recent term probably coined to distinguish its bearers from Europeans, and was probably never used before the eighteen hundreds. Ibid. 20 The Maori invasion of 1835 [of the Chatham Islands]..marked the end of the culture which we know as Moriori. 1962Listener 19 Apr. 676/2 The Moriori, now extinct, were a group of Polynesians who settled in the Chathams somewhere after the twelfth century. Ibid., The Morioris carved birds on the front of their houses. |