Horomatangi Wood Carving Wairakei Terraces New Zealand

A wood carving of Horomatangi, an icon to the Maori people, sits on top of a stump at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand.
At the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand, people can visit a Maori village where culture, tradition and life styles of the Maori people become real. Atop an old tree stump, a wood carving ...

Maori Warriors Wairakei Terraces Taupo New Zealand

Five Maori warriors pose for the camera and allow visitors to the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand to take a picture or two.
Dressed in traditional Maori clothing, a group of warriors pose for this picture at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand. These Maori warriors are tattooed, an impor ...

Maori Women Flax Weaving Wairakei Terraces New Zealand

Two Maori women spend their time flax weaving while visitors look on at the Wairakei Terraces in Waikato on the North Island of New Zealand.
Flax weaving is part of the culture of the Maori people which girls are taught at a young age by their mothers. This art is passed down from generation to generation along with the spiritual belie ...

Maori Village People Wairakei Terraces New Zealand

A Maori warrior and maiden, two of the people from a Maori village at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand collecting fresh water from a waterfall.
At the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand, visitors get a true sense of how the Maori people lived. A Maori warrior and maiden kneel beside a waterfall with a conch sh ...

Maori Village Totem Wairakei Terraces Taupo New Zealand

In the Maori village at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand, a carving on a totem symbolizes a Maori god.
A Pou or totem stands in a Maori village at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand, which has been carved with a variety of different faces symbolizing gods. In this p ...