The imagery of this canoe prow, circa 1200–1500 CE, shows the beginning of the emergence of a distinctively Maori style from the ancestral carving traditions. The Maori’s ancestors likely arrived in New Zealand around 1100 CE, almost certainly from eastern Polynesia. The form and ornamentation of the prow retains some eastern Polynesian features while the dragonlike head resembles later Maori manaia—distinctive figures whose heads often look like those of birds or reptiles.
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