Dress

The traditional Maori culture dresses very distinctively. While the women wear finely woven tops called "piupiu" that are red, white and black. The skirt is made from the flax bush. The women will scrape the patten into the leaves before they dry out, after curling it into a long thin straw shape. After they attach these to a women waistband. Women and sometimes men typically wear headbands that come with a feather. The men also wear piupiu, while greenstone (New Zealand jade) tiki hang around their necks.