File:Esmond Atkinson • Forest Lore of the Maori • p225.tif

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A mekameka (Maori ladder)

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English: Mekameka was a ladder made by Maori usually to scale high cliffs and banks. Pieces of forest vine eg. rata were lashed together with flax with the steps being placed at irregular intervals. "Mekameka" Fig. 9, p225, illustration by Esmond Atkinson in Elsdon Best's 1942 book Forest Lore of the Maori.
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Source Best, Elsdon. (1942). Forest Lore of the Maori. Dominion Museum Bulletin No.14. Polynesian Society Memoir No.18.
Author Esmond Hurworth Atkinson

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