| 释义 |
moa-hunter, Moa-hunter N.Z.|ˈməʊə ˈhʌntə(r)|
[f. moa + hunter.]
The name given to early Maori inhabitants of New Zealand. Also attrib. Hence moa-hunting ppl. a.
1870J. von Haast in Proc. Zool. Soc. 53, I have been so fortunate as to find a large Moa-hunters' encampment, with their cooking-places and kitchen-middens. 1872― in Trans. N.Z. Inst. IV. 78 Proceeding now to an examination of the traces left by the moa-hunting population. Ibid. 80, I discovered a moa-hunter encampment of considerable extent. 1873A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. II. xxiii. 379 From these fractures Dr. Haast draws the conclusion that there were, before the Maoris, a race of moa-hunters. 1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xvii. 241 The moa was hunted and used as food by man... Were these moa-hunters the ancestors of the Maories, or some more ancient race? 1892W. L. Buller in Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXV. 92 Long after the moa-hunters had disappeared. 1950R. Duff Moa-Hunter Period Maori Culture 7 The Moa-hunter phase of Maori culture, as defined and isolated here, is in my opinion clearly distinct from pre-European Maori culture, although it is probably ancestral to it. 1962Antiquity XXXVI. 169 The existence of a widespread Moa-hunter culture in both [North and South] islands inferred by Duff has indeed been demonstrated by a number of excavations. 1974Nat. Geographic Aug. 196 The men who hunted Dinornis..were called by later Polynesians tangata whenua... But the name by which they are commonly known in English is the more appropriate one: moa-hunters. |