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Ethnobotanical Portraits
... (called a kete in Maori) that forms the background of the Viewpoints section was woven by Jocelyn Hartstone, member of a New Zealand Maori weaver’s group. The Maori people will be hosting the 6th International Congress of Ethnobiology in New Zealand in November 1998. Contact: Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Maori Congress, PO Box ...
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Sydney Parkinson (c.1745-1771) - PlantExplorers.com™
... we made the island of Otaheite, called by the Do!phin's people George's Island ... We entered Port Royal harbour and anchored ... drawings of some of the Maori people they encountered. It was soon evident that his remarkable talent extended to portraying people as well. When ... to Australia, the changes could not have been more dramatic. The people, the animals, and the plants all appeared to be worlds ...
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Coloured Potatoes - DIVERSITY
... breeders concentrated on those with dull colours. The end result of this is that most people in Britain believe potatoes to be either red or white. Many coloured potatoes have excellent ... Apple, and more pigmented than Shetland Black. Other coloured types: All Blue, Port Wine Kidney, Maori Chief, Egyptian Red, Canada Black, Moe Moe, Peru Peru. Nigel Deacon / Diversity website LATE ADDITION ...
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New Zealand 2001
... . They looked absolutely fantastic. He is also one of the few people who has had success with Satyriums and he grows some other ... the opportunity for one on one conversation with some extremely knowledgeable people. One of the first that I managed to buttonhole was Cesar Zapata ... . I was unaware until I visited New Zealand that the local Maori name for NZ is "the land of the long white cloud". ...
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... this species flowers heads lack the hooks that make the biddi bids annoying to some people. Although having said that some plants of A. inermis have barbs and hooks like the ... rather than var. microphylla. Biddi bid the common name derives from a distortion of the Maori name Piri piri. Acaena sacatticupola Remarkables Range 1650m This species along with tesca has the ...
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Welcome to ISPPWeb
... the Philippines, Malaysia, China, India and the United Kingdom. The congress began with a traditional Maori challenge and delegates being welcomed by Dr Peter Scott the Chairman of ISPP and by ... staff running the event. A uniform of bright green tee or polo shirts made these people instantly recognisable, with little confusion as to who needed to be asked for advice or ...
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Welcome to ISPPWeb
... , India and the United Kingdom. The congress began with a traditional Maori challenge and delegates being welcomed by Dr Peter Scott the ... A uniform of bright green tee or polo shirts made these people instantly recognisable, with little confusion as to who needed to ... that practical or applied research would suffer. So much so, people interviewing for jobs at the Weslaco Center were advised, "If ...
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RBGE: Favourite Plants at Edinburgh - Under Glass
... found throughout the tropics. It reminds me how plants can change the world and influence people's lives, in this case through alkaloids which are used to treat leukaemia. Cyathea dealbata ... golden croziers this fern produces and cannot help but think that it must have inspired Maori artisans in their carvings. Hoya lanceolata ssp. bella As an apprentice this was the first ...
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Sacred right
... with the creation of the world, Gods and people. In Creation stories, you can read 15 different brief myths, including those of the Maori, First Nation American, Greek, Ancient Iran, India and ...
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CreationStories
... ,USA. "Moontree" by Meinrad Craighead The White Cypress “After their long move southwards, the Aztec people finally arrived at a high plateau, their promised land. There, as legend has it, a ... of energy, and emerging from its millions of buds, there sprouted the whole of creation. Maori Creation myth” Grandmother Cedar “Conifers, the cone-bearing pine and cedar, cypress, fir, spruce, and ...
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