Barnet Burns (November 1805 – 26 December 1860) was an English sailor, trader, and showman who became one of the first Europeans to live as a Pākehā Māori and to receive the full Māori facial tattoo. He travelled to Australia and found employment as a trader of flax in New Zealand in the 1830s. Burns returned to Europe in 1835 and spent most of his remaining years as a showman giving lectures, where he described the customs of the Māori, performed the haka, exhibited his Māori tattoos and recounted his adventures in New Zealand.
Read more about Barnet Burns: Early Life, Colonial Australia and Trading Voyages, Pākeha-Māori, Departure From Uawa, Initial Appearances of Pahe-a-Range in England, Chef De Tribu De La Nouvelle Zélande, Possible Return Visit To New Zealand, Marriage To Mrs Rosina Crowther, Showman and Lecturer, Death
Famous quotes containing the word burns:
“Think, when your castigated pulse
Gies now and then a wallop,
What ragings must his veins convulse,
That still eternal gallop:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)