DNA of kiwi cloaks reveals history of Maori feather trade

(PhysOrg.com) -- A DNA analysis of Kiwi cloaks, the Kahu kiwi, worn by the Maori tribe people in New Zealand, has revealed a previously unknown trade route among early tribes on the various islands that make up the country as it is today. New evidence by David Lambert and his team from Griffith University in Australia, as reported in Molecular Biology and Evolution, shows that there existed a trade route, that until recently, nobody knew about, between the islands that make up the small country in the South Pacific Ocean.

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