If you have been following the One Piece series, there is no secret that Eiichiro Oda likes to tease fans by using callbacks like no other.

The rock, which features 255 strange markings as well as the image of a boat, was unlike anything that had ever been found ...

At age 70, Alex Solomon (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu) is only now learning about the Māori rock art that has quietly existed in the vicinity of where he was born, raised and still lives today.