Pa Site

Maori Pa site

kumara, and other foods like pataka as well as pits for water or sometimes special access to a spring. A wooden gong found on the highest point was used to warn of an approaching enemy.

It was important have access to food, water, and waka transport because if there was a emergency you will need quick access to get away and then survive with what you have.It was important to have a natural slope in terrain for example on a side of a volcanoes.It’s also very important to have good shelter.

Maori preserved large quantities of food by drying it, fermenting it, or sealing it in fat. The food was stored in storehouses or kūmara underground pits Maori used to dig out massive pits to store kumara to preserve it for long periods of time.Fat birds such as titi were preserved in their own fat. After cooking, the hot fat was set aside. The meat was packed into hue and the fat poured around it. Southern tribes inflated poha to make storage containers for titi.