Moriori

group of subantarctic islands that are part of New Zealand

The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands ( in Moriori; in Māori). They are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland by at least about 1500 AD, and possibly around the mid-15th century. The settlers' culture diverged from mainland Māori, and they developed a distinct Moriori language, mythology, artistic expression and way of life. The population of Moriori was recorded as being 1,806 in 2023, most of whom did not live on the Chatham Islands. During the late 19th century some prominent anthropologists proposed that Moriori were pre-Māori settlers of mainland New

extinct Māori-related language of the Chatham Islands

1835–1860s killings in New Zealand

Nunuku-whenua was a sixteenth-century Moriori chief who is known for being a pacifist.

thumb|Tree carving in Bielinek (Bellinchen), [[Pomerania, immediately east of the Oder. It reads, in Russian, "March 1945, Death to the Germans."]] Arborglyphs, dendroglyphs, silvaglyphs, or modified cultural trees are carvings of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees. Although most often referring to ancient cultural practices, the term also refers to modern tree-carving.