Moriori
Britishnoun
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a Polynesian people of New Zealand, esp of the Chatham Islands, closely related to the mainland Māori: now racially intermixed
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a member of this people
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the language of the Moriori, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family
adjective
Example Sentences
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As part of its policy of repatriation, earlier this year, the Natural History Museum returned ancestral Moriori and Maori remains.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2022
More than 600 remains have since been returned, including 111 Moriori and two Maori from London's Natural History Museum in July.
From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2022
The Maori and Moriori skeletal remains, including skulls without mandibles, craniums, loose mandibles and maxilla fragments, were largely collected by Austrian taxidermist and grave robber Andreas Reischek from 1877 to 1889.
From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2022
The memorial honors Tommy Solomon, who for decades has been mythologized as the last “full-blooded” member of the Moriori people, the native Polynesian inhabitants of the island.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022
Soon thereafter, a group of those Maori in turn colonized the Chatham Islands and became the Moriori.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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