Mäori weapons taken at Te Ranga, 1864


The Mäori weapons captured at Te Ranga, as numbered in Robley's watercolour, are:

1 Small patiti (tomahawk)
2 Hämanu (cartouche box) to carry 18 rounds with the karriri (cartridges) neatly made up
3 Patu pounamu (greenstone club)
4 Kotiate (whalebone club) and wooden patu (club)
5 Tao (spear), of hard wood or sharpened or with a bayonet fixed
6 Kakauroa (long-handled tomahawk)
7 Ngutu-parera (flintlock guns)
8 Taiaha (long club) ornamented with dog skin and kaka (parrot) feathers
9 P ëniti (bayonet) and two paper cartridges
10 Tewhatewha (wooden battleaxe)
11 Wooden cartridge roller

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