Haka

Spectators watch in awe when the All Blacks perform the haka. This topic covers the history, significance and types of this ancient Māori war dance that is performed at special ceremonies and events like Kapa Haka competitions. SCIS no. 1816230

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Māori Battalion performing a Haka
Māori Battalion performing a Haka
Members of the Maori Battalion performing a haka in Maadi, Egypt. Taken by an unidentified photographer during World War II. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Articles
Te Matatini ki te Ao kapa haka festival to wow Wellington
The capital will swell as more than 60,000 people flock to the "biggest Māori event in the world", Te Matatini Ki Te Ao.
Articles
Kapa haka competition final translated from te reo Māori into Mandarin
The final of the country's premier kapa haka competition will be translated from te reo Māori to Mandarin for the first time.
Newspapers
Māori performance
Review and explanation of a haka performance in Melbourne in 1904.
Images
New Zealand Māori rugby team haka
New Zealand Māori rugby team haka
The New Zealand Maori rugby team doing a haka at the start of a match against the British Lions. Taken by an unknown photographer at Athletic Park, Wellington in 1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original neg...
Images
Haka by Edward Williams
Haka by Edward Williams
Shows a hospital tent on the beach at New Plymouth, a haka being performed on left watched by a large crowd of onlookers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, 10...
Images
Haka party at Kaiwhaiki
Haka party at Kaiwhaiki
Row of men wearing piupiu crouching down ready to perform the haka. The man at the front of the line is holding a patu up above his head. Photographed at Kaiwhaiki ca 1900, by William Henry Thomas ...
Stories
Haka
Haka
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Ngāti Whātua group at Kaipara
Ngāti Whātua group at Kaipara
Ngati Whatua group at Kaipara, probably performing a haka, photographed in 1863 by Daniel Manders Beere. Note the dog in the foreground. Other Titles - Maori War Dance at Kaipara in 1863. Ngati ...
Videos
Dancing at school
Māori action songs and haka (along with stick and string games) became part of the New Zealand primary-school curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s. Students at Belmont School in Auckland, filmed in 19...
Stories
Haka in WWII
Haka in WWII
Articles
Kapa haka – Māori performing arts: 19th-century kapa haka
Missionary responses From their arrival in the early 19th century, Christian missionaries strove to eradicate the so-called ‘war dance’, along with other forms of Māori culture that they saw as con...
Images
Engineers' haka, 1955
Engineers' haka, 1955
This mock haka was carried out by engineering students at Auckland University in 1955. The students appear to be carrying mock taiaha and wearing grass skirts instead of piupiu. Over the years this...
Stories
Kapa haka
Kapa haka
A set to celebrate kapa haka as Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival is set to take place in Ōtautahi Christchurch, March 2015. http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/te-matatini-national-k...
Images
"A full strength All Blacks side has been named for the pre-match haka at Twickenham." 28 November, 2008.
"A full strength All Blacks side has been named for the pre-match haka at Twickenham." 28 November, 2008.
Shows a news reader reporting in the London news that there will be a full-strength All Black team for the pre-match haka at Twickenham. Refers to criticism of the haka tradition before rugby match...
Articles
Mangatu haka club
Mangatu haka club
Issue No 173 November 6, 1968 - The Mangatu Haka Club was one of the most successful groups in the recent Maori Competitions. Primary girls, winners of the poi dance in their section. Primary ...
Videos
Art Of The haka
Art Of The haka
Discover a colourful version of the haka 'Ka Mate' on canvas.
Newspapers
Haka in captured trench
Recounts the attack by Māori troops at Gaba Tepe Gallipoli and the subsequent victory haka.
Manuscripts
A dance called karne
A dance called karne
This painting was created by Edward Markham and is called: A dance called Karne Karne or Cune Cunee. It depicts eighty Māori women in a ceremonial dance and was painted in 1834.
Images
Haka Ref: E-453-f-001
Haka Ref: E-453-f-001
The Maori war dance or Haka by William Strutt.
Images
Haka and action song
Haka and action song
Haka and action song being performed at Mahina-a-rangi meeting house, Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia, circa 1934. Shows Pei Te Hurinui Jones in front of left side of meeting house doorway.
Images
Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka
Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka
Five men of Ngāti Tūwharetoa performing a vigorous haka at Tokaanu, (a settlement close to Turangi) around 1910.
Images
Winning haka team
Winning haka team
In this 1947 photograph taken by F W G Dickeson's Studio De Luxe, Māori girls and boys of a winning haka team, Maraeroa, are performing a haka.
Images
Whakarewarewa children performing a haka
Whakarewarewa children performing a haka
In this photograph by Josiah Martin, young children are performing a haka on a bridge that leads into the famous Māori village at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua.
Images
Māori war dance study
Māori war dance study
The above sketch shows different aspects of haka as described to the artist William Strutt by a Taranaki Māori, who outlined the ‘positions of the war dance’ to be; driving spear in ground with gre...
Images
Māori action song
Māori action song
A group of women performing an Māori action song at a hui to mark the posthumous awarding of the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, at Ruatoria, in October 1943.
Images
The Haka
The Haka
A group of Māori men performing a haka in front of a carved house at a marae. The photograph is by the New Zealand Tourist Department and the text is taken from James Cowan's book, "The Māori".
Images
All Blacks performing the haka
All Blacks performing the haka
A photograph of the All Blacks trying to perform the haka sometime between 1920 and 1940. Compare this to the fierce All Black haka performance of today.
Images
King Tawhiao's tangi
King Tawhiao's tangi
Tūkaroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao was the second Māori King and the image above shows his soldiers performing a haka at his tangi on 24 September 1894.
Images
Wellington rugby haka
Wellington rugby haka
A haka at the beginning of a Wellington versus Victoria University rugby game. The photograph was taken in June 1951.
Images
Pioneer Battalion performing a haka
Pioneer Battalion performing a haka
In the First World War after Gallipoli (1916), the Native Contingent was split up. Māori soldiers complained “Kua wehewehe mātou” (“We are becoming separated”). After protests from Ngata and other ...
Images
Āpirana Turupa Ngata leading a haka
Āpirana Turupa Ngata leading a haka
The land where the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi was signed was purchased and gifted to the nation by Lord and Lady Bledisloe during Lord Bledisloe's term as the Governor General of New Zealand from 1930...
Images
Māori kapa haka group performing haka
Māori kapa haka group performing haka
A Māori kapa haka group performs a haka in front of the whare runanga (meeting house) at Putiki Pa, Wanganui. This photograph was probably taken in 1918, by Frank J Denton, possibly on the occasion...
Images
Ngāti Kahungunu haka
Ngāti Kahungunu haka
A haka pōwhiri is performed by Ngāti Kahungunu before the wedding of Mr F. Churchill Perry of Timaru and Miss Maud Airini Donnelly, daughter of Mr G.P. Donnelly, She was also the granddaughter of t...
Images
Ngāti Tuwharetoa performing the peruperu
Ngāti Tuwharetoa performing the peruperu
Ten thousand people gathered at Waitangi in February 1934 to celebrate the gifting of James Busby’s residence, and surrounding land to the nation, and to witness Lord Bledisloe unveil the foundatio...
Images
Glendale School kapa haka group
Glendale School kapa haka group
Glendale School’s kapa haka group perform a haka in 1995 in Wellington. In 2002 Glendale and Pencarrow School merged to form Pukeatua School.
Images
War dance by George Angas
War dance by George Angas
Shows a group of Māori performing a haka, with raised patu or taiaha, in front of the pa at Ohinemutu, Rotorua. Canoes are pulled up at the left foreground. Roofs of whare and pataka are visible ov...
Videos
The surprising history of the haka: it's not just the All Blacks' war dance
Video about the history of the haka.
Articles
Haka: Ka Mate!
Exemplar for teaching the haka.
Articles
Let's dance: Stuff's top 10 haka
The haka. The English hate it, the Tongans love it and the Aussies secretly wish they could have their own.
Videos
Haka - how to
A step-by-step guide on how to perform the haka 'Ka Mate.'
Images
Haka
A gallery of images related to the haka.
Videos
Māori weapons haka
Video of the Māori weapons haka.
Videos
The Women's haka
Performed by a girls' choir for the attendees of the MODELS 2011 conference at Te Papa, Wellington.
Videos
Māori haka history
The history behind the Māori haka.
Articles
Never mind the haka - here’s the bole
Article about the war dance from New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
Images
Māori performing a haka
Māori performing a haka
Brandishing double barrel shotguns (tupara) above their heads a group of men and women are performing a haka of welcome (pōwhiri) in Rotorua -you can see the steam rising from hot pools just behind...
Videos
Hawaii football team haka
The Hawaii football team performs the haka before its game against San Diego State.
Articles
A history of the New Zealand rugby haka
The All Blacks haka is a fearsome pre-combat Māori dance they have performed before matches since 1905.
Articles
Parody of haka hideous
England Rugby team captain Matt Dawson and his Battersea Ironsides club perform a haka.
Articles
The Haka
This site provides general information about the Māori haka.
Articles
Kapa haka – Māori performance
Contains information about kapa haka.
Images
Māori group performing a haka
Māori group performing a haka
Group performing a haka at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1906-1907), in Christchurch. Peter Buck (front row, far left) and Apirana Ngata (rear) are visible. Photographer unidentified. ...
Articles
Maori win battle to control All Blacks' haka ritual
The New Zealand government has assigned intellectual property rights in the traditional Maori haka, the Ka Mate, to Ngati Toa.
Videos
How to do a haka, not a 'pākehāka'
The haka is a New Zealand tradition frequently imitated by people from around the world who mean well but don't often get it right.
Articles
Heineken the latest company to mock the haka for profits
The 2015 Rugby World Cup sponsor Heineken is the latest company to use the haka for advertising.
Websites
WWW
Te Matatini Society Inc.
Te Matatini’s purpose is “to foster, develop and protect kapa haka in the pursuit of excellence”.
Newspapers
Haka and poi competition
The rules for a 1935 haka and poi completion at Shannon.
Newspapers
A new haka composed
A new haka is composed by Mr Mac Matamoa in 1940.
Videos
Haka at the NZ Centennial, 1940
A film clip of a haka at the NZ Centennial, 1940.
Videos
Early haka
Early footage of a haka in 1922.
Videos
A tribute haka
Students perform haka to pay tribute to classmates killed in Christchurch.
Videos
High school haka
High school boys honour retiring teacher with moving haka.
Articles
Kapa haka festival Year 4 : Part 01 No. 02 : 2009
When the local kapa haka festival is cancelled, everyone is very disappointed. But not for long - the school decides to hold their own mini-festival instead. School login required.
Articles
The haka and the All Blacks
For most non-Maori New Zealanders today their knowledge of the Haka is perhaps limited to that most performed of Haka called "Ka mate, Ka mate", which was composed by Ngati Toa Chieftain Te Raupara...
Videos
Haka Global
Presenter Matai Smith is on a quest to discover where in the world haka are being performed, why there's such interest in it.
Videos
Haka Fusion
Haka Fusion is the next big thing to hit Te Ao Kapa Haka.
Images
Māori Battalion performing a Haka
Māori Battalion performing a Haka
Members of the Maori Battalion performing a haka in Maadi, Egypt. Taken by an unidentified photographer during World War II. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Articles
Te Matatini ki te Ao kapa haka festival to wow Wellington
The capital will swell as more than 60,000 people flock to the "biggest Māori event in the world", Te Matatini Ki Te Ao.
Articles
Kapa haka competition final translated from te reo Māori into Mandarin
The final of the country's premier kapa haka competition will be translated from te reo Māori to Mandarin for the first time.
Newspapers
Māori performance
Review and explanation of a haka performance in Melbourne in 1904.
Images
New Zealand Māori rugby team haka
New Zealand Māori rugby team haka
The New Zealand Maori rugby team doing a haka at the start of a match against the British Lions. Taken by an unknown photographer at Athletic Park, Wellington in 1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original neg...
Images
Haka by Edward Williams
Haka by Edward Williams
Shows a hospital tent on the beach at New Plymouth, a haka being performed on left watched by a large crowd of onlookers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, 10...
Images
Haka party at Kaiwhaiki
Haka party at Kaiwhaiki
Row of men wearing piupiu crouching down ready to perform the haka. The man at the front of the line is holding a patu up above his head. Photographed at Kaiwhaiki ca 1900, by William Henry Thomas ...
Stories
Haka
Haka
Images
Ngāti Whātua group at Kaipara
Ngāti Whātua group at Kaipara
Ngati Whatua group at Kaipara, probably performing a haka, photographed in 1863 by Daniel Manders Beere. Note the dog in the foreground. Other Titles - Maori War Dance at Kaipara in 1863. Ngati ...
Videos
Dancing at school
Māori action songs and haka (along with stick and string games) became part of the New Zealand primary-school curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s. Students at Belmont School in Auckland, filmed in 19...
Stories
Haka in WWII
Haka in WWII
Articles
Kapa haka – Māori performing arts: 19th-century kapa haka
Missionary responses From their arrival in the early 19th century, Christian missionaries strove to eradicate the so-called ‘war dance’, along with other forms of Māori culture that they saw as con...
Images
Engineers' haka, 1955
Engineers' haka, 1955
This mock haka was carried out by engineering students at Auckland University in 1955. The students appear to be carrying mock taiaha and wearing grass skirts instead of piupiu. Over the years this...
Stories
Kapa haka
Kapa haka
A set to celebrate kapa haka as Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival is set to take place in Ōtautahi Christchurch, March 2015. http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/te-matatini-national-k...
Images
"A full strength All Blacks side has been named for the pre-match haka at Twickenham." 28 November, 2008.
"A full strength All Blacks side has been named for the pre-match haka at Twickenham." 28 November, 2008.
Shows a news reader reporting in the London news that there will be a full-strength All Black team for the pre-match haka at Twickenham. Refers to criticism of the haka tradition before rugby match...
Articles
Mangatu haka club
Mangatu haka club
Issue No 173 November 6, 1968 - The Mangatu Haka Club was one of the most successful groups in the recent Maori Competitions. Primary girls, winners of the poi dance in their section. Primary ...
Videos
Art Of The haka
Art Of The haka
Discover a colourful version of the haka 'Ka Mate' on canvas.
Newspapers
Haka in captured trench
Recounts the attack by Māori troops at Gaba Tepe Gallipoli and the subsequent victory haka.
Manuscripts
A dance called karne
A dance called karne
This painting was created by Edward Markham and is called: A dance called Karne Karne or Cune Cunee. It depicts eighty Māori women in a ceremonial dance and was painted in 1834.
Images
Haka Ref: E-453-f-001
Haka Ref: E-453-f-001
The Maori war dance or Haka by William Strutt.
Images
Haka and action song
Haka and action song
Haka and action song being performed at Mahina-a-rangi meeting house, Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia, circa 1934. Shows Pei Te Hurinui Jones in front of left side of meeting house doorway.
Images
Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka
Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka
Five men of Ngāti Tūwharetoa performing a vigorous haka at Tokaanu, (a settlement close to Turangi) around 1910.
Images
Winning haka team
Winning haka team
In this 1947 photograph taken by F W G Dickeson's Studio De Luxe, Māori girls and boys of a winning haka team, Maraeroa, are performing a haka.
Images
Whakarewarewa children performing a haka
Whakarewarewa children performing a haka
In this photograph by Josiah Martin, young children are performing a haka on a bridge that leads into the famous Māori village at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua.
Images
Māori war dance study
Māori war dance study
The above sketch shows different aspects of haka as described to the artist William Strutt by a Taranaki Māori, who outlined the ‘positions of the war dance’ to be; driving spear in ground with gre...
Images
Māori action song
Māori action song
A group of women performing an Māori action song at a hui to mark the posthumous awarding of the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, at Ruatoria, in October 1943.
Images
The Haka
The Haka
A group of Māori men performing a haka in front of a carved house at a marae. The photograph is by the New Zealand Tourist Department and the text is taken from James Cowan's book, "The Māori".
Images
All Blacks performing the haka
All Blacks performing the haka
A photograph of the All Blacks trying to perform the haka sometime between 1920 and 1940. Compare this to the fierce All Black haka performance of today.
Images
King Tawhiao's tangi
King Tawhiao's tangi
Tūkaroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao was the second Māori King and the image above shows his soldiers performing a haka at his tangi on 24 September 1894.
Images
Wellington rugby haka
Wellington rugby haka
A haka at the beginning of a Wellington versus Victoria University rugby game. The photograph was taken in June 1951.
Images
Pioneer Battalion performing a haka
Pioneer Battalion performing a haka
In the First World War after Gallipoli (1916), the Native Contingent was split up. Māori soldiers complained “Kua wehewehe mātou” (“We are becoming separated”). After protests from Ngata and other ...
Images
Āpirana Turupa Ngata leading a haka
Āpirana Turupa Ngata leading a haka
The land where the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi was signed was purchased and gifted to the nation by Lord and Lady Bledisloe during Lord Bledisloe's term as the Governor General of New Zealand from 1930...
Images
Māori kapa haka group performing haka
Māori kapa haka group performing haka
A Māori kapa haka group performs a haka in front of the whare runanga (meeting house) at Putiki Pa, Wanganui. This photograph was probably taken in 1918, by Frank J Denton, possibly on the occasion...
Images
Ngāti Kahungunu haka
Ngāti Kahungunu haka
A haka pōwhiri is performed by Ngāti Kahungunu before the wedding of Mr F. Churchill Perry of Timaru and Miss Maud Airini Donnelly, daughter of Mr G.P. Donnelly, She was also the granddaughter of t...
Images
Ngāti Tuwharetoa performing the peruperu
Ngāti Tuwharetoa performing the peruperu
Ten thousand people gathered at Waitangi in February 1934 to celebrate the gifting of James Busby’s residence, and surrounding land to the nation, and to witness Lord Bledisloe unveil the foundatio...
Images
Glendale School kapa haka group
Glendale School kapa haka group
Glendale School’s kapa haka group perform a haka in 1995 in Wellington. In 2002 Glendale and Pencarrow School merged to form Pukeatua School.
Images
War dance by George Angas
War dance by George Angas
Shows a group of Māori performing a haka, with raised patu or taiaha, in front of the pa at Ohinemutu, Rotorua. Canoes are pulled up at the left foreground. Roofs of whare and pataka are visible ov...
Videos
The surprising history of the haka: it's not just the All Blacks' war dance
Video about the history of the haka.
Articles
Haka: Ka Mate!
Exemplar for teaching the haka.
Articles
Let's dance: Stuff's top 10 haka
The haka. The English hate it, the Tongans love it and the Aussies secretly wish they could have their own.
Videos
Haka - how to
A step-by-step guide on how to perform the haka 'Ka Mate.'
Images
Haka
A gallery of images related to the haka.
Videos
Māori weapons haka
Video of the Māori weapons haka.
Videos
The Women's haka
Performed by a girls' choir for the attendees of the MODELS 2011 conference at Te Papa, Wellington.
Videos
Māori haka history
The history behind the Māori haka.
Articles
Never mind the haka - here’s the bole
Article about the war dance from New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
Images
Māori performing a haka
Māori performing a haka
Brandishing double barrel shotguns (tupara) above their heads a group of men and women are performing a haka of welcome (pōwhiri) in Rotorua -you can see the steam rising from hot pools just behind...
Videos
Hawaii football team haka
The Hawaii football team performs the haka before its game against San Diego State.
Articles
A history of the New Zealand rugby haka
The All Blacks haka is a fearsome pre-combat Māori dance they have performed before matches since 1905.
Articles
Parody of haka hideous
England Rugby team captain Matt Dawson and his Battersea Ironsides club perform a haka.
Articles
The Haka
This site provides general information about the Māori haka.
Articles
Kapa haka – Māori performance
Contains information about kapa haka.
Images
Māori group performing a haka
Māori group performing a haka
Group performing a haka at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1906-1907), in Christchurch. Peter Buck (front row, far left) and Apirana Ngata (rear) are visible. Photographer unidentified. ...
Articles
Maori win battle to control All Blacks' haka ritual
The New Zealand government has assigned intellectual property rights in the traditional Maori haka, the Ka Mate, to Ngati Toa.
Videos
How to do a haka, not a 'pākehāka'
The haka is a New Zealand tradition frequently imitated by people from around the world who mean well but don't often get it right.
Articles
Heineken the latest company to mock the haka for profits
The 2015 Rugby World Cup sponsor Heineken is the latest company to use the haka for advertising.
Websites
WWW
Te Matatini Society Inc.
Te Matatini’s purpose is “to foster, develop and protect kapa haka in the pursuit of excellence”.
Newspapers
Haka and poi competition
The rules for a 1935 haka and poi completion at Shannon.
Newspapers
A new haka composed
A new haka is composed by Mr Mac Matamoa in 1940.
Videos
Haka at the NZ Centennial, 1940
A film clip of a haka at the NZ Centennial, 1940.
Videos
Early haka
Early footage of a haka in 1922.
Videos
A tribute haka
Students perform haka to pay tribute to classmates killed in Christchurch.
Videos
High school haka
High school boys honour retiring teacher with moving haka.
Articles
Kapa haka festival Year 4 : Part 01 No. 02 : 2009
When the local kapa haka festival is cancelled, everyone is very disappointed. But not for long - the school decides to hold their own mini-festival instead. School login required.
Articles
The haka and the All Blacks
For most non-Maori New Zealanders today their knowledge of the Haka is perhaps limited to that most performed of Haka called "Ka mate, Ka mate", which was composed by Ngati Toa Chieftain Te Raupara...
Videos
Haka Global
Presenter Matai Smith is on a quest to discover where in the world haka are being performed, why there's such interest in it.
Videos
Haka Fusion
Haka Fusion is the next big thing to hit Te Ao Kapa Haka.

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