One similarity between the feather cloaks of Hawaii and the meetinghouses of the Maori people of New Zealand is that:
A. both embody ideas about the order of society and the protective powers of the gods.
B. both represent human control over natural forces.
C. both deny the existence of an afterlife.
D. both commemorate important war victories.
E. both are used exclusively by women.
A
The function of a cloak was to be worn for protective power. The architectural structure of the meetinghouses symbolically represented the "body" of the supreme deity of the Maori.
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