The Old-Time Maori
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- magic, white, 83
- Maihi te Kakau Paraoa, 5, 221 25, passim
- maikaika, 209
- Mair, Gilbert, 12, 222, 226
- makomako, 212
- makutu, 280 f.
- mamaku, 212
- mana, of Tuhourangi, 156; see also tapu
- manaia, 293
- marakihau, 293
- Marara, 5, 21, 25, passim
- Marett, R. R., 24, 26
- marotaua, 335
- Marratia fraxinea, see para tawhiti
- marriage, arrangement of, 64 f., 78; relations incurred by, 51, 80; rangatira, 64 f.; ordinary, 78; between rangatira and ordinary people, 85, 89; intertribal, 86
- married couple, mode of life, 75
- mate wahine, 119, 138; and disability to cook, etc., 160, 207 f.
- Matuatonga, 181
- Maui and Mahuika, 275 f.
- mauri of kumara, 180; of sea fish, 221; of eels, 246; of birds, 269
- meals, 163, 164
- measurements of houses, 295
- memorial to Makereti, 20, 27
- menstruation, see mate wahine
- mere, 322, 324; see also patu pounamu
- Mita Taupopoki, 12, 50
- modesty, 124
- mokopuna, 47, 62page 349
- moku, 212
- monogamy and polygyny, 81
- moral tone of family life, 100; moral teaching, 146 other, care of, 115 mothers-in-low, 88
- murder 330
- Myrtus [gap — reason: unclear]nculata, see rohutu