C

• calabashes, 215
• carving, 293
• caves, 282
• chiffon head-dress, 26
• child, new-born, care of, 115
• child-birth, 112 f., 118
• childless woman, 120
• children, adopted, 51, 85; beliefs about, 122; care of, 133 f.; chief's, 153; clothing of, 137; deformed, 122; of divorced parents, 108; fair, 123; firstborn, 51; foster, 51; number and frequency of, 119 f.; teaching of, 135 f., 137, 147, 150; see also, boys, girls
• clearing ground for plantation, 179
• cloaks, feather, korowai, etc., 12; unfinished, 27; see also bride, groom
• Colocasia antiquorum, see taro
• communal nature of work, 183 f., 311
• Convolvulus sepium, see pohue
• Cook, Captain, 230
• cooking, 159 f.; not done in houses, 283
• Coraria ruscifolia, see tutu
• Cordyline australis, see tiipage 346
• Corynocarpus laevigata, see karaka
• courtship, successful, 78; unsuccessful, 79
• Crozet's Voyage, 23
• cultivation only where plants are put in, 190
• cultivations, number and extent of, 198 f.
• Cyathea medullaris, see mamaku
• Cyathoides acerosa, see tumingi