The Art of R. Terry Malone
Fine Art Giclee Prints Depicting the Era of the 1700 and 1800s
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A Maori Greeting
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Original-Vinyls on Illustration Board
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When Captain Cook was circumnavigating New Zealand,
the Maori would attack by throwing spears, performing war dances, and
making speeches. The ship surgeons diary noted: "They treated us with
a kind of heiva or war dance performed by striking their paddles upon
the gunwall, beating time in exact regularity to the parts of a song
which they chanted in a very martial tone ... (one of the natives) ...
in bending forward, throwing his arms behind him, elevating his head,
staring wildly upwards and thrusting his tongue forward ... At the close
of the song, pronouncing the last sentence with a hoarse expirations
- the rest followed his example in the last manoeuvre. We commended the
performance and they obliged us with a repetition of it." |
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© 2005
R. Terry Malone
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