I still haven’t got a new scanner *sigh* so all I can do is to blog about my randomly chosen old postcards from the Flickr. Okay now I would love to share my postcards on Maori culture – yep, from New Zealand. I have come to know Maoris from the postcards I received, yeah obviously, and they’re believed to be the origin people of New Zealand with so colorful and creative culture.
This is official card (NZ-4761) I received from Rhonda which I can’t help loving :) It shows Maori children wearing their traditional costume. Maori people make up about 15% of NZ population.
And this is from Kasha10 showing Maori dancers and those facial art :D Alright – it’s some kind of face tattoo called Moku and is meant to scare the enemies during the battle. I don’t know why it sounds funny to me.
This lovely card came from From Buttercup65.
Maori woman from Feordiegirl84. The while balls she is holding are called Poi and are swung on woven strings when dancing.
And this one is very interesting, came from funkymunky showing traditional carvings of the Maoris. In the past whale bone was used for these carvings (huh?) and nowadays it is predominantly cattle bone.
