Advertisements Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand have a tradition of nudity. Originally the war haka, or peruperu was performed naked, as was warfare itself. There were phallic implications in this. British missionaries equated public nudity with licentious behaviour and gross indecency and were shocked at the naked haka and sought to stop it. In day to day life girls were naked to puberty, there was no restriction on boys. Communal gardens were worked naked, as was the task of hauling logs from the forest to build waka. Maori had no working clothes, and a narrow definition of nudity. In males this
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