New Zealand - Museum of Shipwrecks - Maori War Canoe - Lyric Studio Photo - Photo Postcard format Maori People - The indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand - Māori originated with settlers from eastern Polynesia - Arrived in New Zealand in several waves of waka (canoe) voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350 - Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed their own distinctive culture (Reference: Wikipedia)