An oil painting of a Māori ... which is the traditional Maori system of tattooing, and wearing a large pounamu tiki (a carved human figure made usually from New Zealand greenstone) pendant ...

The award-winning gardener and host of TV series He Kākano grew up near Invercargill, or Waihōpai, the southernmost point of New Zealand ... of Maori rituals – such as Tā moko, an art ...

When early settlers arrived in New Zealand in the 1800s, they had no choice but to learn Maori to communicate with the locals – they needed the Maori’s survival and trading expertise.