COME TO LUNCH WITH THE MĀORIS!

Title ‘Come to lunch - with the Māoris!’.
Intertitle ‘The Māori was an expert fisherman and snarer of birds, and lacked little in the way of food’. ‘The koura, a native crayfish, was trapped in masses of weed --’. Māori woman and man on Lake [Rotorua] in waka, catch koura with tau koura (traditional method of using bundle of fern leaves and leaving them to rest on lake bottom - the koura swim in the weeds and rest there). Intertitle ‘-- and caught by nimble fingers among the shallow rocks.’ Māori fisherwoman gathering koura around shores of lake. Māori woman wearing large tiki around her neck holds up her catch of koura in her kete. She places a koura in her mouth and laughs. Intertitle ‘Oysters and pipi added a touch of piquancy.’ Woman holds up shellfish.

Intertitle ‘In the kainga -- many hands and a few shells make light work of scraping the tasty kūmara’. Three women in feather cloaks in geothermal area, Rotorua, peel kūmara with shells and place them in kete. Women stand and take kete to river side where they wash the kūmara.

Intertitle ‘Pot luck - - a kindly Nature provides hot water here.’ Women walk to geothermal pool where they place kete on long string into boiling water pool. Intertitle ‘All the time is gossip time in Māoriland’. Women in feather cloaks laugh and talk. Intertitle ‘Unbreakable pottery - - small flax baskets make useful plates’. Māori woman with moko wearing cloak sits weaving harakeke to make kete, small child in feather cloak sits beside her. Two women weaving harakeke. Three women weaving harakeke, woman on left shakes up basket. Intertitle ‘Plaiting the kororipo - - strange kind of tribal cooking pot.’ Close up of weaving [kororipo], a long narrow hoop like basket. Woman sitting in [kororipo] dancing with kete.

Intertitle ‘Drawing of the water’ - - the gourd fillers.’ Women fill gourds with water in geothermal landscape, Rotorua, then walk up track, past pallisades. Intertitle ‘Neolithic cookery -- before steaming begins the fish and birds are partly cooked on the hot stones’. Men take partly cooked meat and fish off stone oven with sticks. ‘Water on the hot stones makes a fine steam oven’. Māori man pours water from gourd over stones. Kororipo is placed over oven and food in kete poured onto hot oven. Inter title ‘An hour in the hangi cooks every item to a nicety’. Men and women uncover food in oven and place in kete. Inter title ‘Dishing up’. Close up of cooked food in kete.

Intertitle ‘The chiefs must be fed according to custom’. Women perform while carrying kete of food. Chiefs wearing cloaks and seated on ground are handed food. Man sits eating large bone with meat on it. Intertitle ‘A Māori version of Little Jack Horner’.