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The North Island's Top 15
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New Zealand's indigenous Maori culture is both accessible and engaging: join in a
haka
(war dance); chow down at a traditional
hangi
(Maori feast cooked in the ground),
carve a pendant from bone or
pounamu
(jade), learn some Maori language, or check out an
authentic cultural performance with song, dance, legends, arts and crafts. Big-city and re-
gional museums around the North Island are crammed with Maori artefacts and historical
items, but this is a living culture: vibrant, potent and contemporary.
