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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).

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.

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.

Māori performance

Review and explanation of a haka performance in Melbourne in 1904.

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...

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...

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 ...

Haka

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 ...

Options for appropriate Italian haka

Options for appropriate Italian haka

Shows four versions of a possible Italian Haka. The first is of the military version and shows an Italian dropping his gun and jumping into the air with both his hands up. The second is the Sicilia...

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...

Why don't our cricketers do the haka?

Why don't our cricketers do the haka?

Cartoon referring to the New Zealand cricket team and the haka.

Haka in WWII

Hakas for all occasions

Hakas for all occasions

Shows various uses for the haka, a traditional dance of challenge and welcome. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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 ...

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...

The Waiata haka

Newspaper article about the waiata haka from 1935.

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...

"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...

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 ...

Art Of The haka

Art Of The haka

Discover a colourful version of the haka 'Ka Mate' on canvas.

"For pete's sake, not another injury before the World Cup! What is it this time?" "Haka strain!" 6 September, 2007

"For pete's sake, not another injury before the World Cup! What is it this time?" "Haka strain!" 6 September, 2007

"The Underzone" cartoon strip. Shows Graham Henry, the All Blacks coach, being frustrated by another rugby player being injured before the Rugby World Cup. The player is being taken off the rugby ...

Haka in captured trench

Recounts the attack by Māori troops at Gaba Tepe Gallipoli and the subsequent victory haka.

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.

Haka Ref: E-453-f-001

Haka Ref: E-453-f-001

The Maori war dance or Haka by William Strutt.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka

Ngāti Tūwharetoa haka

Five men of Ngāti Tūwharetoa performing a vigorous haka at Tokaanu, (a settlement close to Turangi) around 1910.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Haka strain

An All Black fan is carted off on a stretcher by medics after straining himself doing the Haka. One of the medics says 'Another flamin; haka strain and the Cup's just started!' Context: The Rugby W...

The surprising history of the haka: it's not just the All Blacks' war dance

Video about the history of the haka.

Exemplar for teaching the haka.

A gallery of images related to kapa haka.

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.

A step-by-step guide on how to perform the haka 'Ka Mate.'

A gallery of images related to the haka.

Jonah Lomu's former teammates and Fans perform emotional final haka.

War dance of the Polynesian Islands

Articles about the war dances of the Polynesian Islands.

Māori weapons haka

Video of the Māori weapons haka.

Prince Harry performs the NZ army haka

Prince Harry performs a haka with NZ Army personnel during his visit to New Zealand.

The Women's haka

Performed by a girls' choir for the attendees of the MODELS 2011 conference at Te Papa, Wellington.

Māori haka history

The history behind the Māori haka.

Never mind the haka - here’s the bole

Article about the war dance from New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.

Haka

Cartoon referring to the All Blacks haka.

Tuhoe haka

This group of Tuhoe protesters in Wellington are marching and performing a haka to voice their objection to the 2007 New Zealand ‘anti-terror’ raids in their tribal homeland of Urewera on the 15 Oc...

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...

Hawaii football team haka

The Hawaii football team performs the haka before its game against San Diego State.

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.

Parody of haka hideous

England Rugby team captain Matt Dawson and his Battersea Ironsides club perform a haka.

This site provides general information about the Māori haka.

Kapa haka – Māori performance

Contains information about kapa haka.

Information about the All Blacks and the haka.

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. ...

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.

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.

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.

Te Matatini Society Inc.

Te Matatini’s purpose is “to foster, develop and protect kapa haka in the pursuit of excellence”.