tūpūrāri

== Moriori == === Noun === tūpūrāri Moriori quarter staff. It was the only weapon permitted to be used by the Moriori. When two Moriori had a quarrel they would resolve their conflict by battling with this 8-10 foot long staff, striking downward awkwardly until one of them had struck first blood. Whoever first made their opponent bleed first would be the winner of the duel. ==== References ==== Shand, Alexander (1894), “The Moriori People of the Chatham Islands: Their Traditions and History”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society‎[1]