New Zealand - Maori Culture - Māori cooking in boiling pool, Rotorua - Circa 1935 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) ----------------------- Image source: Photograph of Māori cooking in boiling pool, Rotorua, New Zealand. Taken from a series of 990 photographs that were collected by Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1957 to 1960, during his political and personal life. These photographs are held at Archives New Zealand. Archives New Zealand reference: AEFZ 22625 W5727 2598 / 3103/0238 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C4%81ori_cooking_in_boiling_pool,_Rotorua.jpg