FWIW, the reason the Māori and the Dutch came to blows in Golden Bay (aka Murderer's Bay) was because of cultural misunderstandings - the Māori blew several bla

FWIW, the reason the Māori and the Dutch came to blows in Golden Bay (aka Murderer's Bay) was because of cultural misunderstandings - the Māori blew several blasts through a trumpet (either a pūkāea, made of wood, or a pūtātara,a native conch with a wooden mouthpiece) as a challenge, and the Dutch responded in kind, which was construed by the Māori as accepting the challenge. http://www.theprow.org.nz/events/the-first-meeting-abel-tasman-and-maori-in-golden-bay/#.YDx9D5NR2V4 http://www.theprow.org.nz/events/the-first-meeting-abel-tasm... > Tasman’s journal records that four waka paddled towards them and that there were calls between the vessels. A warrior “blew several times on an instrument… we then ordered our sailors… to play them some tunes in answer.”