Exploring the Craft of New Zealand's Maori Wood Carving

Replying to @owenbell03 Before 1800. Māori, in a number of dialects, was the oral language of New Zealand. Māori primarily relied on oral communication, but did also have some other communication forms (such as raranga, whakairo. 1815 Thomas Kendall, the first resident missionary, published A korao no New Zealand, or, The New Zealander’s first book: being an attempt to compose some lessons for the instruction of natives. This was the first published attempt to record Māori speech in an alphabeti