单词 | moa-hunter |
释义 | moa-huntern. New Zealand. Chiefly historical. A person who hunts moas; spec. a member of an early Maori culture in New Zealand, characterized by hunting moas. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Maori > [noun] New Zealander1770 Zealander1773 Maori1834 nigger1858 moa-hunter1870 Hori1933 1870 J. von Haast in Proc. Zool. Soc. 53 I have been so fortunate as to find a large Moa-hunters' encampment, with their cooking-places and kitchen-middens. 1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. II. xxiii. 379 From these fractures Dr. Haast draws the conclusion that there were, before the Maoris, a race of moa-hunters. 1892 W. L. Buller in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1892 (1893) 25 92 Long after the moa-hunters had disappeared. 1950 R. Duff Moa-hunter Period Maori Culture 7 The Moa-hunter phase of Maori culture, as defined and isolated here, is in my opinion clearly distinct from pre-European Maori culture, although it is probably ancestral to it. 1974 National Geographic Aug. 196 The men who hunted Dinornis..were called by later Polynesians tangata whenua... But the name by which they are commonly known in English is the more appropriate one: moa-hunters. 1984 Man 19 362 Prior to 1950, such archaeological work as was done in New Zealand tended to be focused on whether or not the prehistoric ‘Moa-hunters’ were related to the historic Maori. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870 |
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