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• Racial pollution, 251–252

• Rafter painting patterns, 168, 169

• Rainbow god, 85, 230

• Rakapa's love songs, 99–100

• Rapuwai, ancient tribe, 38

• Rarotonga, 48

• Ratana, religious healer, 63, 64, 256

• Rauparaha, Te, 161

• Religion, of the ancient Maori, 49–62

• Religions of the modern Maori, 63–68

• Rerenga-wai song, 209

• Rewi Maniapoto, 197

• Ringatu faith, 63, 64, 66

• Rivers tapu'd, 70–71

• Rongomai, the god, 61, 233

• Ruatorea butter factory, 21, 254