– 597 –

Index.

• Abortion—How procured 5
• Absolution in ritual performances 45, 47
• Adzes, Stone 200
• Adzes, Stone, use of 578
• Agriculture 216, 353
• Agriculture. (See Fasting. Harvest. Human Sacrifice. Irrigation. Implements. Kumara. Mara. Pests. Rongo.)
• Agriculture and moon 181, 208
• Agricultural implements 358
• Agriculturists, Labours of 373, 374
• Ahao, a form of spear 244
• Ahi mate, the cold hearth stone 75
• Ahi matiti, or bird preserving 489
• Ahi parapara ceremonial 442, 555
• Ahi rara tuna—How eels were preserved 442
• Ahi titi—How mutton birds were taken 487
• Ahi torongu—Pests destroyed by magic 388
• Ahi tupopoto—A “self-burning” stove 7
• Aho ponapona—Quipu mnemonics 201
• Ahua—Semblance of an entity or quality 40, 69, 227
• Ahua. (See Mawe).
• Ahuriri—A funnel net 409
• Aitua—Unlucky acts, misfortune, omens 29, 33, 229, 283
• Aitua. (See Omens.)
• Aitua—Personified form of misfortune 29, 33
• Ambuscades in warfare 237
• Amulets 48
• Ancestral spirits, Reliance on 25
• Animatism, Effect of belief in 452
• Anklets 535
• “Aotearoa” lifts the sea roads 591
• Ara matua, or ecliptic 209, 210
• Ara pawhati—How forest trails were marked 474
• Arawa folk at Rua-tahuna 233
• Arawaru, Te—Origin of shellfish (see Kaumaihi) 417
• Arei pa, Taranaki 350
• Arero whero—Fighting men 232
• Arero whero. (See Ati a toa, Ika a Whiro.)
• Aristocratic tendency in Maori 1, 31
• Armoury 284
• Art of agriculture 353
• Arts of pleasure 77

  – 598 –

• Art of war 224
• Ashes used as fertiliser 373, 379
• Aspersion in rites 14, 40
• Aspersion. (See Immersion.)
• Astrologists 206
• Astrologists. (See Stars. Voyagers.)
• Astronomical lore 205
• Astronomy and astrology (see Tatai arorangi) 206
• Astronomy, Myths, etc. based on 209
• Atahu. (See Love charms.)
• Atamira, or bier 54
• Ati a toa—Young warriors 232
• Ati a toa. (See Arero whero. Ika a Whiro.)
• Atiawa versus Warahoe fights 225
• Atua as guardian of village community 342
• Atua cause sickness 32, 34
• Atua, how foiled 35
• Atua kahu—Caco-dæmons 5, 34, 49
• Atua. (See Gods. Io. Kaiuaua. Puhi-kainaonao.)
• Auika, or fish stringer 421
• Aurora Australis, mythical origin of 217
• Aute, or paper mulberry 396
• Aute as ear ornament 540
• Aute bark—A clothing material 505
• Aute, Introduction of 354, 355
• Awatoto pa, Desperate attack on 339
• Bait containers 417, 437
• Balista employed in tree felling 197, 198
• Ball game 110
• Baptismal party welcomed at village 17
• Baptismal rites 7, 13, 18, 21, 22
• Baptismal rites. (See Tohi. Tua.)
• Baptismal ritual feast 18
• Bark fabric 505, 506, 518
• Bark fabric made in New Zealand 506, 518
• Barracouta—How caught 425
• Barracouta, Species of 425
• Baskets 525
• Baskets, Fish 421, 441, 447
• Bat as an article of food 482
• Bed clothing, Lack of 511
• Bellbird—How taken 486
• Belts 520
• Belts tattooed round waist 552
• Binary system of numeration 177, 178
• Bird preserving 489
• Bird released in rites 16, 343, 379

  – 599 –

• Bird sacrifice for new house 559
• Bird snares—How made and set 459
• Bird snarer's charms 462
• Bird snaring 457, 459
• Bird-snaring restrictions 454, 466, 467
• Bird-snaring trees 460, 461, 462
• Bird-snaring troughs. (See Waka kereru.)
• Bird spears 464
• Bird spears—How used 464
• Bird traps. (See Hawk. Korapa. Puaka.)
• Birds as ear pendants 537
• Birds, Decoy 469
• Birds—First taken employed as offering to gods 459
• Birds, Flock names of 467
• Birds formerly very numerous 456
• Birds—How counted 177, 178, 477, 478
• Birds—How retained in forest 457, 466
• Birds—How taken 457 on
• Birds of forest fly seaward 466
• Birds of other lands 455
• Birds, Origin of 455
• Birds, Sayings concerning 457, 468, 477, 478
• Birds snared at water 461
• Birds taken on frosty nights 474
• Birds. Talking 478
• Birds, Tapu 455
• Birds. (See Bat. Bell bird. Blight bird. Crow. Cuckoo. Ducks. Hawk. Huia. Hurumanu. Kaka. Kakapo. Kiwi. Manu-teko. Mutton birds. Owl. Parauri. Parakeet. Pigeon. Punaweko. Quail. Robin. Tane. Tui. Woodhen. Mara o Tane. Tiepa. Wai tuhi. Waka kereru. Whenua pua.)
• Birth accelerated by playing flute 25
• Birth, Curious restrictions concerning 8
• Birth customs 1
• Birth giving no serious ordeal 2
• Birth registration, Primitive 16
• Birth, Ritual connected with 1
• Birth, Tutelary beings connected with 2
• Birth. (See Nest house. Rua kai. Stillborn. Tuku.)
• Bleaching fibre—How effected 516
• Blight bird—How taken 481
• Blood vengeance 226
• Boat, Development of ribbed 222
• Bone—How worked 278
• Bone pendants 540
• Bones of dead used as fertilising and protective agents 387
• Bones of dead—How recovered. (See Exhumation.)
• Bones of dead preserved in elevated boxes 587

  – 600 –

• Bones of enemies fashioned into implements 226
• Boundary marks 376
• Bow found in swamp 280
• Bow and arrow 200, 279
• Bow and arrow, Maori tradition of 281
• Bowls, Stone 129
• Bowls, Stone, of Polynesia 131
• Boxes, Carved 545
• Boxing 82
• Boys dedicated to war god 227
• Boys encouraged in sham fights 81
• Bracelets 535
• Branchlets used in rites 13, 14, 40
• Breadfruit—Name of preserved by Maori 354
• Breath-holding competitions 127
• Bullroarer 163
• Bullroarer as a ceremonial instrument 163
• Burial caves 62, 65, 67, 73
• Burial grounds 62
• Burial, House 65
• Burial, Sandhill 64
• Burial, Sea 67
• Burial, Secret 65
• Burial, Sitting 67
• Burial stage or platform 63
• Burial, Swamp 64
• Burial, Tree 63
• Burial, Trussed 54
• Burial. (See Coffins. Exhumation.)
• Bush clearings—How made 375
• Caco-dæmons 5
• Caco-dæmons cause stomach disorders 34
• Calabash vessels adorned 490
• Call leaf for birds—How used 487
• Cannibalism (see Kai pirau) 338, 555
• Canoe built to avenge defeat 233
• Canoe cenotaphs 62
• Canoe coffins 63
• Canoe docks 347
• Canoe making 221
• Canoe races 91
• Canoe songs 146
• Canoes—Rim-lashing device 221, 222
• Canoes, Two-masted 222
• Canopus, Names of 212
• Caras blancas of Polynesia 506
• Carved designs of superior houses 571, 574, 575

  – 601 –

• Carvings concealed in swamps, etc. 573
• Carvings. (See Whakairo. Wood carving. Manaia. Pakake. Marakihau. Wheku.
• Cats cradle 99
• Cave dwellings 578
• Cave stores 590
• Caves. (See Burial caves.)
• Caviare. (See Kaniwha.)
• Celestial phenomena 216, 217
• Cenotaphs (see Mortuary memorials) 61, 62
• Ceremonial pertaining to weaving 513
• Ceremonial planting of crops 380
• Challenging 292
• Chaplets, mourning (see Fillets) 74
• Charm, Divinatory 41
• Charm repeated over dart 94, 95
• Charm to facilitate birth 5
• Charm to impede flight of enemy 298
• Charms of bird snarers 462
• Charms repeated over weapons. (See Hoa rakau.)
• Charms to render persons swift-footed 298
• Charms. (See Hoa. Hono. Titikura. Whai. Karakia.)
• Chatham Isles invaded by Maori buccaneers 225
• Childless women nursed dolls 4
• Children 79
• Children accompanied raiding forces 338
• Children encouraged to play games 80
• Children—How taught 66
• Children of Light 30
• Children of the Mist 2
• Children ran naked 35, 511
• Children sold for and as food 338
• Children. (See Boys. Infants.)
• Circumvallation of fortified places 337
• Clappers 169
• Cliff forts 312, 347
• Climbing. (See under Tree.)
• Cloaks, etc., used as armour 229, 284
• Cloak pins 508
• Clothing, Maori 38, 503
• Clothing of Maori when fighting 229
• Clothing materials 514, 518
• Clothing materials, Change of 505
• Clothing materials. (See Aute. Bark. Fibres. Garments.)
• Cloud Children 217, 452
• Cloud Maid, The 388
• Clouds personified 217
• Coconut brought to New Zealand 354

  – 602 –

• Coconut—Name of preserved by Maori 128
• Coffins 63, 65
• Colour names 218, 219, 220, 221
• Colour sense of Maori 218
• Combs, Head (see Tuku heru) 75, 533
• Comets 216
• Compass points, Maori 210, 211
• Compass points have wind names 210, 212
• Conception—How produced 3, 5
• Conception prevented by magic 4
• Conception produced by magic 3
• Conception produces congratulations 2
• Conception, Signs of 5
• Conditions of life in pre-European days 305
• Congenital stigmata 21
• Constellations (see Stars) 209
• Cooked food defiles tapu 454, 466
• Cooking 442, 444
• Cooking sheds 578
• Cooking shellfish by tuwhatu method 417
• Coquille, Voyage of 37
• Cordage 531
• Cordyline as a food product 394
• Cordyline—How cooked 394
• Cordyline, Introduction of 394
• Cordyline terminalis probably introduced 394
• Coromandel (ship) to New Zealand in 1820 38
• Counting, Curious usages concerning 178, 477
• Counting, Fingers and toes used in 177
• Counting in fours 178
• Counting. (See Binary. Numeration.)
• Couvade—No trace of in New Zealand 23
• Cradles, Two forms of 23
• Crayfish—How taken 415
• Crayfish, Mythical origin of 417
• Cremation 61, 67
• Crescent symbol of moon god of agriculture 361
• Crops, Harvesting of 389
• Crops—How estimated 389
• Crops never irrigated 392
• Crops—Pests of pre-European days 388
• Crops planted at certain phases of moon 375–392
• Crops, Storage of 390
• Crops, Weeding of 387
• Crops, (See Gourd. Kumara. Yam.)
• Cross as a tattooed design 547
• Crow (bird) 486
• Crozet's attack on a fortified village 345

  – 603 –

• Crying as a pastime 79
• Cuckoo 486
• Cultivation grounds, Description of 376, 377
• Cures—Some singular usages 49, 50
• Curious usages 49, 50, 178, 232, 233, 477, 500, 501
• Daggers 241
• Dance of the Mareikura 300
• Dancing. 107
• Dancing. (See Haka. Posture dances. Maimai. Turanga.)
• Dart throwing 81, 93
• Darts, Magic 95
• Dawn Maid 10, 388
• Dawn of science 171
• Dead, Gifts made to. (See Kopaki.)
• Dead, Objects placed with 66, 67
• Death customs 29
• Death enters the world 29
• Death—How the Maori meets it 56
• Death in open preferred 53
• Death journey food 53
• Death—Lying in state 54
• Death. (See Burial. Coffins. Mortuary. Graves. Gunfire. Kopaki. Lying in state. Skulls. Suicide. Tombs.)
• Decline of vitality and stamina, Cause of 38
• Decoration, Personal 532
• Decoration, Personal. (See Ornaments.)
• Decorative art curvilinear 571
• Decorative work in houses 567–571
• Decorative work. (See Carvings. Paint. Sennit. Taniko. Tattooing. Houses.)
• Decoy birds 469
• Defeat, Peculiar modes of avenging 232, 233
• Delirium 45, 50
• Desirable qualities protected by magic 227
• Desperate attack on Awatoto pa 339
• Devils, Casting out of 6, 40, 43
• Diagnostic rite 40, 41
• Digging, Boustrophedon method of 381, 383
• Digging soil for crops a mere loosening process 366
• Dirges 144
• Diseases 35, 44, 49
• Diseases. (See Goitre. Headache. Leprosy. Sick. Sickness. Maiki. Toothache. Worms.)
• Divination 15, 40, 41, 42, 119, 128, 144, 290
• Divinatory dances 290
• Divinatory kite flying 119
• Divinatory rites 40, 41, 42

  – 604 –

• Divorce 11
• Doctors distrusted 39
• Dog introduced into New Zealand by Maori 354
• Dog rattles 483, 485
• Dog skin garments 519
• Dog teeth as pendants 537
• Doors of native houses 570
• Draughts—The mu torere game 111
• Draughts, Hawaiian form of 111
• Drill, Cord or thong 172, 197
• Drill, Pump, unknown to Maori 197
• Drilling stone, Native method of 197
• Drum of Polynesia (see Gongs) 166, 169
• Ducks—How taken 481
• Ducks—How they were not taken 273
• Dyeing processes (see Mordant) 516
• Dying persons 51, 52
• Dying persons farewelled by friends 52, 58
• Dying person's farewell to friends 52
• Ear pendants 535
• Ear piercing a ceremonial act 555
• Earth mother clothed with vegetation 452
• Earth mother, Period of labour of 5
• Earthworms as a food supply 53
• Ecliptic. (See Ara matua.)
• Eel bait 437, 439, 441
• Eel bobbing 441
• Eel fry 437, 440
• Eel fry—How taken 440
• Eel pots 430, 437
• Eel pots—How set 432
• Eel pots made of Phormium leaves 439
• Eel spears 440
• Eel weirs 431
• Eels, Blue-eyed 437
• Eels—How cooked 442, 444
• Eels—How counted 178
• Eels—How preserved 442
• Eels—How taken 428, 430, 440
• Eels liberated in Miramar lagoon 442
• Eels, Migration of 437, 440
• Eels move overland 442
• Eels not found in high-lying lakes 430
• Eels of large size 430
• Eels, Origin of 398, 442
• Eels taken at certain phases of moon 182
• Eels. (See Hinaki.)

  – 605 –

• Enemy—How saved during fighting 299
• Enemy sells fascines to British Army 350
• Epidemics. 37, 50
• Epidemics. (See under Upoko.)
• European garments—How worn 522
• European vessels to New Zealand, Early 37, 38
• Exhumation 70
• Exhumation, Gifts made at 72
• Exhumation—Final disposal of bones of dead 63, 64
• Exorcism of evil spirits 6, 40, 43
• Face painting 543, 545
• Fasting workers plant crops 376
• Fatalism a Maori characteristic 30, 31
• Feasts, Ceremonial 18, 22, 302, etc.
• Feasts, Funeral 69, 72, 75
• Feasts, Funeral. (See Festivals. Hakari.)
• Feather garments 517, 519
• Feather ornaments 534, 535, 543
• Feather tippet 543
• Feathers concealed by fowlers 466
• Feathers. (See Plumes.)
• Female element, Powers of 228
• Female infant dedicated to Hine-te-iwaiwa 27
• Fences and breakwinds 358
• Fences against birds 357
• Fern roots as staple food product 355
• Festivals (see Feasts) 79
• Feuds, Intertribal 225, 232
• Fibres—How bleached 516
• Fibres—How dyed 516
• Fibres. (See Weaving. Mordant.)
• Fighter watches big toe of opponent 281
• Fighting methods 237, 238, 296
• Fighting stages of New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and New Guinea 333
• Fighting stages, Projecting 333
• Fijian pa 333, 351
• Fillets, Mourning 59
• Fire making 202
• Fire-making materials 204
• Fire. (See Ahi.)
• Fires, Ceremonial (see under Ahi) 297, 388, 555
• Firearms caused change in defensive works 348
• Firearms inspired fear 285, 286
• Firearms, Introduction and effect of 284, 285
• Firearms, Names for 285, 286
• Firearms. (See Muskets. Gunfire.)
• First fruits 389

  – 606 –

• First fruits offerings 372
• Fish baskets 421, 441, 447
• Fish first caught liberated 406
• Fish hooks 414, 419, 425
• Fish hooks, Bone—How made 428
• Fish hooks—European forms not appreciated 428
• Fish hooks fashioned from human bone 426
• Fish hooks, Feather lures of 428
• Fish hooks, Wooden—How procured 426
• Fish, Mauri of 400
• Fish, Mythical origin of 398
• Fish, Personified form of 398
• Fish spears 428, 440
• Fish traps 437, 447, 449, 450
• Fish traps, Diminutive 438
• Fish traps, Manufacture of 437
• Fish traps of marvellously neat manufacture 438, 439
• Fish traps—The Koumu 441
• Fish. (See Barracouta. Crayfish. Eels. Flounders. Hinaki. Inanga. Kahawai. Kokopu. Lamprey. Panoko. Hinaki. Shellfish. Shrimps. Tikihemi. Upokororo. Kawau. Puna i Rangiriri. Tinirau.
• Fishers employed charms 417
• Fishers made offerings to gods 423, 442
• Fishing 397
• Fishing a tapu pursuit 399
• Fishing a universal pursuit 397
• Fishing bait 414
• Fishing canoes fitted with fish creels 419
• Fishing controlled by moon 182
• Fishing, Fresh water 430
• Fishing grounds area marked by stakes 401
• Fishing grounds located by lining objects on land 401, 402
• Fishing grounds named 402
• Fishing, Line 419, 421
• Fishing lines 419, 421
• Fishing lines, Ceremonial wetting of new 423
• Fishing lines, Outriggers for 423
• Fishing nets. (See under Nets.)
• Fishing nets, Origin of 412
• Fishing rods 441
• Fishing, Trolling 414
• Fishing. (See Reti.)
• Flax eel pot 439
• Flax trumpets 160
• Floor mats 525
• Flounders, Species of 450
• Flutes 152

  – 607 –

• Flutes, Ceremonial, of New Guinea 26
• Flutes, Ceremonial, of New Zealand 25, 26
• Flutes fashioned from human bone 25, 26
• Flutes, Ivory 155
• Flutes, Nose 153, 155
• Flutes, Phallic 25
• Flutes played over sick child 26
• Flutes—Use of in parturition 25
• Folk lore 2, 412, 452, 454
• Food cooked separately for different castes 22
• Food of raiding party 231
• Food plants distributed by Pacific voyagers 354, 355
• Food plants introduced into New Zealand 354, 355, 396
• Food supplies and stars 206
• Foot races 83
• Forest life—Effect of on Maori 451
• Forest lore 451
• Forest mauri or talisman 456
• Forest, Mythical denizens of 452, 454
• Forest originally universal 454
• Forest, Origin of 452
• Forest as a refuge 306
• Forest, Maori attitude toward 452
• Forest rangers not intimidated 333
• Forest, Tapu of 454
• Fortified villages 304
• Fowlers, Ceremonial return of 490
• Fowlers'charms 462
• Fuel 578
• Gait of native women 556
• Galaxias, Species of 450
• Gambling unknown 80
• Game-taking rights 458
• Games 77
• Games, Classification of 78
• Garments 503
• Garments. (See Clothing. Weaving. Maro.)
• Garments, Dog skin 519
• Garments, Feather 517, 519
• Garments—How adorned 516, 517, 518
• Garments—How European garments were worn 522
• Garments—How fastened 508
• Garments—How worn 508
• Genealogical staves 201
• Ghosts 50
• Ghouls devour dead 55, 70
• Gifts to newly born infants 17

  – 608 –

• Girls, Training of 302
• Gods appealed to in sickness 43, 45, 47
• Gods of agriculture 386
• Gods, Offerings to in war 296, 297
• Gods. (See Atua. Hine-korako. Io. Kahukura. Kiwa. Maru. Pani. Rongomai. Ruamano. Tane. Tiki. Tunui. War Gods.)
• Goitre 49
• Gongs 166
• Gongs, Tree 167
• Gourd, Curious mode of planting 393
• Gourd, Mythical origin of 392
• Gourd, Uses of 392, 393
• Gourd wind instrument 160
• Gravel and sand employed in agriculture 374, 379
• Graves 64
• Graves. (See Burial. Exhumation.)
• Greenstone pendants 537
• Grinding stones 201
• Growth of vegetation personified 387, 388
• Gunfire over dying 52
• Hair cutting 532, 533
• Hair cutting a ceremonial act 58, 69, 288, 533
• Hair dressing 533
• Hair employed in rites 297
• Hair worn long by men 532
• Hair worn short by women 532
• Haka 102, 105
• Haka of Pakaurangi 85
• Haka, Origin of 107
• Haka poi 110
• Hakari 389
• Hakari. (See Feasts. Festivals.)
• Hakuturi, or forest elves 454
• Hapi tawa, a pastime 132
• Hara, or desecration of tapu 40
• Hara. (See Tapu. Hauhauaitu.)
• Harvest feast 389
• Hauhauaitu and hinapo—Effects of hara 227
• Hawaiki-nui, meeting place of four-way spirit path 53
• Hawk traps 486
• Headache—How cured 51
• Heads—How preserved 61
• Heads of enemies placed on stockades 333
• Heavenly bodies 205
• Heavenly bodies. (See Moon. Stars. Sun.)
• Hei matau, a pendant 537, 539

  – 609 –

• Heipipi pa at Petane 307
• Hell as invented by Rev. Yate 44
• Herbal remedies modern 51
• Heru tu rae—Head combs 75, 533
• Hewn designs on house timbers 578
• Hihi outruns a falling tree 295
• Hikawai—A game 99
• Hikumutu,—The winter solstice 208
• Hikurangi mountain of homeland 70
• Hill forts (see Pa) 307, 311
• Hill forts, Terraced 307, 321, etc.
• Hill forts, Types of 311
• Hills married to cement peace 300
• Hina, the Moon Maid 181
• Hina and Tinirau 398
• Hinakeha and Hinauri 208
• Hinaki (eel pots)—How set in lagoons 439
• Hinaki pitau—Whitebait traps 437
• Hinaki tarino 439
• Hinaki waharua 439
• Hinaki. (See eel pots.)
• Hina-te-iwaiwa, the Moon Maid 2, 4, 5
• Hinauri and Hinakeha personify lunar phases 181
• Hine-kauorohia 18
• Hine-kapua, the Cloud Maid 217
• Hine-korako 2, 45
• Hine-nui-te-Po and death 29
• Hine-nui-te-Po and Maui 29
• Hine-pukohu-rangi, the Mist Maid 2
• Hine-raumati, the Summer Maid 180
• Hine-rau-wharangi—A personification 387, 454
• Hine-te-iwaiwa 2
• Hine-te-iwaiwa and art of weaving 514
• Hine-te-iwaiwa, Female infants dedicated to 27
• Hine-titama, the Dawn Maid 10
• Hine-takurua, the Winter Maid 180
• Hine-whaitiri, the Thunder Maid 15
• Hippocampus as an ear pendant 540
• Hirihiri charm—A diagnostic rite 40
• Hoa rakau charm 242
• Hoa tapuwae charm 298
• Hoeroa—A peculiar bone weapon 276
• Hoeroa as a missile weapon 278
• Hoeroa curved by steaming 279
• Hono charm—A healing rite 48
• Hooks, Albatross 430
• Hooks, Fish. (See Fish hooks.)
• Hoop—A toy 126

  – 610 –

• Hoop nets 405, 407, 412
• Hopara makaurangi—Painted designs 546, 559
• Hotete—A caterpillar pest—How destroyed 388
• House building 195, 561, 562
• House building a tapu task 561
• House building, Origin of 558
• House—Carved figures in, named after ancestors 574
• House, Ceremonial opening of 587
• House, Human sacrifice for new 559, 576
• House of mourning 58
• House site—How squared 191
• House, Tapu lifted from new 342
• Houses 558
• Houses, Carved work in 571
• Houses, Decorative panels of 567
• Houses, Doors of 570
• Houses, Interior aspect of 570
• Houses named 578
• Houses, No furniture in 570
• Houses not repaired 561
• Houses of arts 505, 511
• Houses—Ordinary dwelling huts 577
• Houses, Reedwork in 567, 569
• Houses, Roof pitch of 576
• Houses, Smoke vent in roof of 576
• Houses, Superior 561, 562, 563
• Houses, Thatching of 567, 569
• Houses, Two types of 559
• Houses, Windows of 570
• Houses. (See under Carvings. Huts. Tane. Human sacrifice. Kauta. Rangitapu. Sennit. Storehouses. Tree dwellings. Whare. Whata.)
• Huaki-pouri—Abode of primal beings 10
• Huamata, or first fruits 372
• Huata spear (see Spears) 240
• Huia plumes 534
• Huia—How taken 481
• Hui-te-ananui—House of Hine-titama 10
• Hui-te-rangiora 10
• Human bones as a fertiliser 386
• Human sacrifice 555
• Human sacrifice as a mourning rite 60
• Human sacrifice for infant 22
• Human sacrifice for new house 576
• Human sacrifiec in agriculture 386, 387
• Human sacrifice, Substitute for 21
• Human sacrifice—Survival of in agriculture 386
• Human teeth as pendants 537

  – 611 –

• Hura-waikato and carving 559
• Hurumanu represents sea birds 455
• Huts, Circular 578
• Huts, ordinary dwelling (see Houses) 577
• Ihaia Hutana discourses on child welfare 24
• Iho tamariki (umbilical cord) utilised in rite 19
• Iho tamariki, Cutting of 12
• Iho tamariki, Disposal of 11, 17
• Ihorangi Te 398
• Ika a Whiro, or tried warriors (see Arero whero) 232
• Ika koangaumu—Human sacrifice 60
• Ikaroa Te—The Milky Way 209
• Illegitimacy 22
• Illness, Cause of 32, 34
• Images, Double 12
• Images, Three fingered 574
• Image represents dead person 60
• Immersion in rites 14, 50, 69, 74
• Immersion in sickness 50
• Immersion. (See Aspersion. Baptismal rites.)
• Implements, Agricultural 358
• Implements fashioned from bones of enemies 226
• Implements of Maori primitive 202
• Implements—The matarau earth lifter 330
• Implements used in taking shellfish 417
• Implements. (See under Agriculture. Birds. Fish. Weapons, etc.
• Inanga—How taken 449
• Inanga, Migrations of 449
• Infanticide 26
• Infant, Baptismal ceremony over 13, 14
• Infant dedicated to Supreme Being 15, 18, 19
• Infant endowed with mental vigour, etc. 25, 27
• Infant, Massage of 24
• Infant, Naming of 22
• Infant, Nanu of 24
• Infant, Nose of flattened 24
• Infant welcomed into world 10, 17
• Infants, Care of 23, 24
• Infants, Charms recited over 27
• Infants, Weaning of 22
• Infants. (See Boys. Children. Cradles. Io. Koroingo. Massage. Nanu. Whakawaiu.)
• Ingoa whakarare, or tapu name22
• Insanity 50
• Intercalation in lunar month 182
• Intoning, Maori love of 136

  – 612 –

• Io, the Supreme Being 47
• Io, Infants dedicated to 15, 18, 19
• Io invoked 3, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19
• Io-mataaho 25
• Io-matua 45
• Io, Names of 18, 25
• Io-te-wananga 25
• Ira atua 30
• Iri and atahu 146
• Irrigation not practised 392
• Island forts and refuges (see Pa) 318, 347
• Jackstones, Game of 92
• Jews harp, a pre-European form 170
• Juan Fernandez—Did he reach New Zealand? 506
• Jumping 83
• Jumping jack—A toy 129
• Kaharoa net (see Nets) 404
• Kahawai—How taken 414
• Kaheru—Native spade 359, 368
• Kahui-anu, Te 30
• Kahukura and the fairies 412
• Kahukura—Personified form of rainbow 43, 45
• Kai pirau—A ghoulish practice 55, 70
• Kairamua—A form of hara 34
• Kaiuaua—A malignant demon 34
• Kai ure rite 43
• Kaka parrot—How taken 466, 467, 468
• Kakapo formerly numerous 483
• Kakapo, Habits of 483, 484
• Kakauroa, or long-handled tomahawk—How used 253, 257
• Kaniwha, or caviare 425
• Kao kumara—Dried sweet potatoes 374
• Kapu—A scoop for taking mussels 419
• Karaka poison (see Poisons) 51
• Karakia at opening of new pa 341
• Karakia tohi. (See Baptismal ritual.)
• Karakia. (See Charms.)
• Karam and Karamu trees 384
• Karetao—A toy 129
• Karewa pa, Attack on 340
• Katipo spider, Bite of 50
• Kaumaihi—Origin of shellfish (see Arawaru) 417
• Kaupeka, or months (see Months) 184, 185, 209
• Kauri—A stone weapon 261
• Kauta—Cooking sheds 578
• Kawa taua ceremony 289

  – 613 –

• Kawatini—Tohunga 45
• Kawa whare ceremony 342, 587
• Kawau māro—A phase of the war dance 238, 239
• Kawau-moe-roa—Fish traps. etc. 409
• Kekeparaoa pa at Waikohu 70
• Ketu—An agricultural implement 359
• Kikokiko, or ghosts 50
• Kings—How elected 125
• Kiri mate—Relatives of dead 58, 59
• Kite flying 115
• Kiwa appealed to in sickness 47
• Kiwi caught by means of dogs 485
• Knowledge of stars (see Stars) 206
• Ko—A digging stick 359, 379
• Ko, Ceremonial form of 380
• Ko decorated for ceremonial planting 366
• Ko—How used 366
• Koauau flute (see Flutes) 153
• Koauau flute, Curious use of 25
• Kokiri, or water jump 88
• Kokopu fish—How taken 447
• Kokopu. (See Galaxias.)
• Kokowai, or red ochre 543
• Kopaki—Mortuary offerings 54, 70, 74
• Korapa bird trap 481, 482
• Koraria starts a war 225
• Korepa—A form of slung shot 270
• Korohuhu, or “whizzer’ 164
• Koroingo rite over infant 17
• Korowhitiwhiti, or cradle (see Cradles) 23
• Koruru—A game 92
• Kotiate—A bone weapon 265
• Koumu—A form of fish trap 441, 449
• Koururu—Personified form of owl 559
• Ku—A primitive string instrument 170
• Kumara (sweet potato), Cultivation of 369, 373
• Kumara, flowering varieties of 371
• Kumara “gods,” so called 386
• Kumara, Harvesting of 388
• Kumara introduced into New Zealand 371
• Kumara, Mythical origin of 370
• Kumara pests 388
• Kumara planted in quincunx order 374, 383
• Kumara, planting of 374, 375, 376
• Kumara planting a ceremonial task 380
• Kumara planting—How mounds were aligned 378, 379, 381, 382, 383
• Kumara—Southern limit of cultivation 355
• Kumara taken to Chatham Isles 354

  – 614 –

• Kumara. (See Pani. Rongo. Crops. Kao.)
• Kurawaka 11
• Kurawha the Amazon 82
• Kura-winiwini—A pastime 133
• Laceration in mourning 55
• Ladders 195, 488
• Laments (see Songs) 60, 146
• Lamprey—How taken 444, 445
• Lamprey, Migrations of 444
• Lamprey pots 438
• Lamprey weirs 444, 446
• Latrines 335, 590
• Latrines, Singular rite performed at 43
• Laughter that desolated many lands 225
• Left foot employed in ceremonies 48
• Left hand employed in ceremonies 47, 342, 423
• Left thigh, Objects passed under ceremonially 42, 423
• Leprosy introduced from abroad 49
• Life principle 7
• Life principle in all things 30
• Life principle. (See Mauri.)
• Litters 67
• Lizard and Whiro 35
• Lizard as guardian of tapu 65
• Lizard in carved work 573
• Lobster pot 415
• Log rolling—How effected 192
• Log splitting 193
• Love charms 146
• Lunar months 180, 184, 185
• Lunar months. (See Intercalation. Kaupeka. Months.)
• Lunar personifications 2, 4
• Lunar personifications. (See Hina. Hine-te-iwaiwa. Hine-korako. Rongo.)
• Lying in state 54
• Magellan Clouds 212, 214
• Magic 41, 43, 49, 106, 119
• Magic affects mental qualities 297
• Magic darts 95
• Magic employed in war 232
• Magic rite to destroy crop pests 388
• Magic, White 3, 4, 15
• Magic, White man's 44
• Mahuru sends the Cuckoo 375
• Maiki brethren 29, 30, 33, 43
• Maimai, a form of posture dance 107

  – 615 –

• Maioha ceremony 10, 17
• Makamaka—A form of bird snare 476, 477
• Makamaka kai—Ceremonial serving at feast 302
• Ma-kokoti pa, Siege of 338
• Makutu. (See Magic.)
• Mana 43, 47, 342
• Mana, Origin of 16
• Manaia design in carved work 574
• Manatunga 106
• Manea of left foot 48
• Manga—A rake dredge 419
• Mangere, pa, Attack on 339
• Mangoroa, Te 214
• Mangoroa, Te. (See Milky Way. Ikaroa.)
• Manu-korihi pa, Waitara 310, 311
• Manu teko—A mythical bird 455
• Maori as a fighter 236, 237
• Marakihau figures in carved work 575
• Māra o Tane 456
• Māra tautane 372
• Mareikura, Dance of the 300
• Marere-o-tonga personifies pleasure 78
• Maripi, or shark-tooth cutter 270
• Mariunga—A medium 41
• Maro kopua—A form of apron 511
• Marooned woman, Story of 120
• Maroro kokoti ihu waka 226
• Marriage of mountains to cement peacemaking 300
• Marriage to cement peacemaking 300
• Maru—A personification and atua 43, 45
• Maruaroa season 186
• Massage by trampling 44
• Massage of infants 24
• Mātāika, first man slain in fight 296
• Mataitaua pa at Paua-tahanui 349
• Matakite. (See Divination. Divinatory. Mata taua.)
• Matarau, a peculiar implement 330
• Mata taua, expert and seer 238
• Matau tangata, or “man hook” 283
• Mate aitu 32