Many people think the haka a Maori war dance. It is not so, according to Dr. Buck, in his lecture to the garrison officers at Wellington on Thursday night. The haka is only a ceremonial dance of welcome or honour to visitors. The war-dance was always accompanied with weapons, first with spears and later with guns. The whole secret of Maori dancing was rhythm, rhythm, rhythm. When a well-trained squadron was performing the war dance, and with one-accord leapt into the air, it was possible 'to see dear suace under the whole rjaD_u. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14146, 23 August 1909, Page 6
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