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    The document discusses the traditional Maori practice of Mokomokai, where the preserved heads of deceased tribe members with distinctive facial tattoos (moko) were kept as trophies or exchanged between tribes. During the Musket Wars in the early 1800s, Mokomokai heads became highly valuable trade items that tribes used to acquire European guns, with some tribes even tattooing prisoners to produce more heads for trade. The tradition eventually died out after New Zealand became a British colony and the trade in Mokomokai was banned.

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    The document discusses the traditional Maori practice of Mokomokai, where the preserved heads of deceased tribe members with distinctive facial tattoos (moko) were kept as trophies or exchanged between tribes. During the Musket Wars in the early 1800s, Mokomokai heads became highly valuable trade items that tribes used to acquire European guns, with some tribes even tattooing prisoners to produce more heads for trade. The tradition eventually died out after New Zealand became a British colony and the trade in Mokomokai was banned.

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    Mokomokai

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    The document discusses the traditional Maori practice of Mokomokai, where the preserved heads of deceased tribe members with distinctive facial tattoos (moko) were kept as trophies or exchanged between tribes. During the Musket Wars in the early 1800s, Mokomokai heads became highly valuable trade items that tribes used to acquire European guns, with some tribes even tattooing prisoners to produce more heads for trade. The tradition eventually died out after New Zealand became a British colony and the trade in Mokomokai was banned.

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    What This Tribe In New Zealand Used To Trade With Europeans Is Pretty Disturbing.

    The Maori people of New Zealand are some of the most interesting indigenous people on the planet.
    One of their more creepy traditions is called Mokomokai.
    In Maori culture, Moko are traditional facial tattoos that signify rank within the tribe. These tattoos
    are also used to commemorate major events in the life of a tribe member. Here's where it gets weird...
    When a person with Moko died, their head would often be preserved and become known as
    Mokomokai.

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    The brain and eyes were removed from the skull. All orifices were then sealed with flax fibre and gum.

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    To prevent decomposition of the head, it was then boiled or steamed, before being smoked over an
    open fire and dried in the sun.

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    The heads would then be kept by family members and brought out only for sacred religious
    ceremonies.

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    Mokomokai also played a role in tribal warfare. The heads of defeated chiefs were preserved in this
    way, and considered important trophies of war. They were also used to broker peace deals between
    different tribes, who would return or exchange Mokomokai.

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    With the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand during the early 1800s, the tradition of Mokomokai
    changed forever.

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    From 1820 until 1831, different Maori tribes were trading with Europeans. One of the most heavily
    traded items were muskets. This led to an arms race among the Maori; whoever had guns had an
    advantage over their neighbors. This period of time is known as the Musket Wars.

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    During the Musket Wars, Mokomokai heads became very valuable commercial trade items. Many tribes
    traded their entire collection of Mokomokai for rifles. Some tribes raided their neighbors for more
    Mokomokai to trade, and others started tattooing the faces of slaves and prisoners to produce more
    Mokomokai.

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    By 1831, the Musket Wars ended mostly because of market saturation of rifles. At the same time, the
    British government officially banned the trade in Mokomokai, and New Zealand became a British
    colony.

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    Despite the ban on trade, some Europeans like British Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley (pictured
    below) were able to acquire an impressive collection of Mokomokai heads. These days, Mokomokai is
    no longer practiced among the Maori. However, there has been a marginally successful effort to return
    the remaining the heads to New Zealand.

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    Though it seems like a morbid practice to us in 2014, there is a certain beauty and devotion to one's
    ancestors that is admirable in the practice of Mokomokai. If you're interested in seeing the
    remaining Mokomokai, you can view them at the American Museum Of Natural History in New York.

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