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The Old-Time Maori
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Index
A
- address, terms of, 54 f.
- adultery and punishment, 87 f., 91, 104 f.
- affection between families and effect on marriage, 63
- affection, holding the tie of, 89
- agriculture, implements used in, 191 f.; see also ko
- ahi tapu, 279 f.
- albinism, 123
- alliances cemented by marriage, 83
- ambuscades, 333
- amo and maihi, 309
- Anthropodium cirrhatum, see maikaika
- Aonui, 7, 22.
- Arawa, Council of, 7; migration of, 33
- Areca sapida, see nikau
- ariki, 154 f.; te aho ariki, 20
- Aristotelia racemosa, see makomako
- Asplemium bulbiferum, obtusatum, see moku, pikopiko
B
- Balfour, Henry, 24, 26
- banking of houses, 307
- baskets, cooking, 165, 175; food, 13
- Beilschmidia tawa, see tawa
- betrothal, 64
- Best, Elsdon, 26, 181
- birds, 257 f.; snares for, 260 f., 268; snaring grounds, 260
- births, premature or difficult, 121
- bones, human, made into implements, 330
- boys, teaching of, 143 f.
- breasts, treatment of, 116
- bride, dress of, 70
- burning of clearing, 180
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
D
E
F
- feast, expense, divided among hapu at, 157 f.; wedding, 72 f.
- feasts, 163
- fern-root, 203 f.
- fire, care in use of, 273; hissing, 280; human hair not to be put into, 281; kept and carried, 273; making of, 271 f.; origin of, 274 f.; as protection from frost, 281; rites with, 279 f.; sacred, 279; and witchcraft, 280 f.
- fires, different for cooking and heating, 273
- first-fruits, 182 f., 194, 219
- Firth, Raymond, 7
- fish, 218 f.; kinds of, 227, 234; hooks, natural, 234
- fishing, hook and line, 232 f.; grounds, property in, 220, 239
- food, of children, 136; contributed, by visiting hapu, 73; preparation of, 170; as protection from witchcraft, 280 f.; served separately to bride and groom, 72; supply after European settlement, 157
- Freycinetia banksii, see kiekie
- Fuchsia exorticata, see kotukutuku
G
- games, 146, 153
- genealogy, men in capitals, in small letters, 35; importance of, 37; teaching of, Makereti from chiefs and Tohunga of Te Awara Waka, 49; of village of Whakarewarewa, 36, 40, 45, 56; of whanau of Te Pahau and Morehu, 48; of whanau of Tamawhakaara, 50; of marriage of Waaka te Rohu and Pareraututu, 53; of Ihaia and Makereta and of Te Wiremu and Ngahina, 61; of fish, 219; of kumara, 176page 347
- gifts, at betrothal, 65; presentation and acceptance at marriage of, 68 f.; presented and returned, 69
- girls, teaching of, 138 f.
- greenstone, kinds of, 323
- greeting, methods of, 56; and farewell, 57
- Grey, Sir George, 127, 129, 184
- groom, dress of, 71
- guests at weddings, 73 f.
H
- Hadow, Miss Grace, 24
- hakeke, 213
- haliotis, 234; in fish-hooks, 233; in eyes of carved figures, 293
- hangi, 162
- hapu, 34; relationship of, 36; names of, 37; gathering of, 157 f; invitations to, 73 f.; marriages between people of different, 90; decision to build by, 294 f.; work on house by, 311 f.
- Hawaiki, 27; meaning of, 33
- heirlooms, 323; at betrothal, 65, 67; at weddings, 76; at funerals, 77
- heke tipi, 304
- herehere, 90; wives, 82
- hinaki, 11, 246
- hinau, 211
- Hine-korako, 119
- Hinemoa, 92 f.
- Hine-te-iwaiwa, 119, 121
- history, teaching of, 152
- hoahoa, 52, 82
- hoeroa, 321
- home, see kainga
- hongi, 56
- house, general plan of, 283; building of, 294 f.; foundations of, 295; how warmed, 283; not rebuilt, 282; see also whare
- huahua kereru, 262; poaka, 256
- hue, 215
- hui at wedding, 73
- huia birds, 13, 269; feather worn by chiefs, 11
- Hukarere College, 22
- hunaonga, 52
- hungawai, 52
- husband and wife, relative position of, 89 f.
I
K
- kaho, 302
- kainga, the village and home, 35; plan of, 284 f.; movement from one to another, 286 f.; genealogy of 35 f., 40, 45, 56
- kaka, 268
- kakahi, 243
- kakapo, 264
- kakarihi, 265
- karaka, 210
- karakia, why not translated, 129, 186; for male and female children, 125 f., 341 f.; at marriage, 72; to win affection, 83; in difficult birth, 121; while using page 348 ko, 184; for planting kumara, 190; after lifting kumara, 197; on cutting tree, 291
- karangarua, 44
- kawai, 133
- kawakawa, 209
- kea, 267
- kiekie, xi, 208
- kinikini, xii
- Kiwa, 219
- kiwi, 264; cloaks, II
- ko, 184, 187
- kohua, 217
- kokopu, 242
- kopaki, 77, 323
- korimako, 267
- korua, 47
- korowai cloak, 11, 13; unfinished, 12, 27
- kotaha and kopere, 320
- kotiate, 14, 327; use in punishment, 91
- kotukutuku, 209
- koura, 231, 239
- kuia, 47
- Kuiti, W. B. te, 26
- kumara, 175 f.; arrival in New Zealand of, 178; planting, 177 f., 183; setting tubers of, 189; gathering and storing, 193 f.; cooking and drying, 196; see also hangi, steam-holes, genealogy
L
M
- 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
N
- [gap — reason: unclear] used in address rather than relationship terms, 47; how given, 80; of children, 136; used by children, 137
- Nesodaphne tawa, see tawa
- nets, 221; making, 228; preservation, 227; from Turehu, 229; seine, 227; of Te Pokiha, 222
- ngati, meaning descendants of, 35
- Ngatoroirangi, 33
- Nicholas quoted, 198
- nik[gap — reason: unclear]8
- [gap — reason: unclear] iwi, hapau, whanau, [gap — reason: unclear]
O
P
- Pāākuha, 51, 66 f.
- pakeha, marriage with, 101 f., 108 f.; in old days, 109 f.
- panels for house, 14, 305 f.
- pāpā, 46
- papaka, 305
- Papakura, 19
- para tawhiti, 206
- Para-whenua, 127, 341
- pare, 12
- Parekarangi, 172 f.
- Parekohuru, 171 f.
- partridges, preserved, 263
- pataka, 13, 161
- patiki, 243
- patupaiarehe, 123 f., 151 f.; and nets, 229 f.
- patu, paraoa, 14, 326; pounamu, 11, 14, 14, 322 f.; onewa, 326
- peace making, 332 f.
- pests, origin of, 177
- Pia te Rihi, or te Ngarotu, 7, 11; her cloak, 26
- pigeons, 259 f.; preserved, 262 pigs, 255 f.
- pihipihi, 265
- pikopiko, 212
- pipi, 238
- pito, see navel
- piupiu, flax skirts, 13
- placenta, 115
- pohue, 214
- poi balls, 13; dances, 74
- polygyny, 133
- Polyporus sp., see hakeke
- poporo, 209
- porch, 308
- position at meals, 165
- potatoes, 216 f.
- poupou, 300
- poutauhu, 295
- pou-toko-manawa, 11, 300, 304
- pouwhenua, 14, 319
- proposal, 64
- prostitution, absence of, 101
- Pteris aquilina, see fern-root
- puhi, 91 f.
- pukeho, 266
- punarua, 82, 85
- puwha, 213
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R
- rafters, 301
- rahokuia, 12
- Rangi, 14; use of taiaha, 317 f.
- Rangitihi, the akatea bound his head, 331
- rats (kiore), 252 f.; sacrifice of, 253; snaring grounds, 255; traps, 253 f.
- raupo, 213
- relationship, terms, 42 f.; for reference only, 47; permitted and prohibited degrees of, 60; by blood mentioned rather than by marriage, 53; recognized by presentation and return of gifts, 69
- relations-in-law, 52
- ridgepole, way of placing, 296
- Riwai, 323
- rohutu, 209
- ropu, work by, 183
- rou kakahi, 243
S
- sacrifice, on completion of whare kura, 311; use of seaweed in, 236
- sand mixed with soil, 179
- seaweed, 236
- Selwyn, Bishop, 104
- separation of husband and wife, 87
- shark, 227
- shaving, 238
- shellfish, kinds of, 237 f.
- signals, 333
- skulls on fence posts, 330
- slave-wives, 82
- sleeping places, 283 f.
- social organization, 38 f.
- Solanum aviculare, see poporo
- Sonchus oleraceus, see puwha
- songs, action in harmony with, 187; of Hinemoa, 100; for Repora and Taranaki, 169
- spiral, 293
- Staples-Browne, R. C., 22
- stars, 152
- steam holes, cooking in, 165, 170 f.
- storage of food, 160 f.; in pits, 195
- sweet potatoes, see kumara
T
- taiaha, 14, 316 f.
- taina, 43 f.
- tamariki, 47
- Tama te Kapua, 33
- Tane, forest of, 269, 290
- Tangaroa, 219, 226
- tangata whenua welcoming guests, 64
- taniko borders, xi, xii
- taonga pāākuha, 76
- tapu, removed by food, 147, 160; origin of kumara, 175 f.; nature of planting, 178; of cultivation, 183; of growing crops, 193; removal from crops of, 194; connected with cutting trees, 291; with building, 289 f., 294; with fishing, 220, 227; removal from fish of, 226; of forest, 259; of warriors, 329, 331 f.; of mother in child-birth, 113; of married woman, 104 f.; of burial places, 146; of head, 146; as observed by author and editor, 25; see also tohi and Tohunga
- taro, 214
- taua puremu, 87 f., 104 f.
- tauhu, 296page 351
- tawa berries, 206 f.
- tawhara, 208
- Tawhaio, 36
- Taylor, Rev. Richard, 129
- tekoteko, 309
- tewhatewha, 14, 319
- thatching, 303
- theft, origin of, 177
- Thelymitra pulchella, see maikaika
- Thom, W. A., 21
- threshold, 308
- ti, 211
- tii, 211
- Tiki, 13; Te Uoro, 11, 36; Dick Papakura, 19
- tirairaka, 265
- Tohi, 125 f.
- Tohunga, Tutanekai, 13; eating apart, 165; use of ahi tapu by, 281; house of, 310; at Tohi rite, 125 f., 341 f.; at difficult birth, 121; at marriage, 72; atahu, 83; at tree cutting, 291; wood carving, 293; at fishing, 220, 226, 227; use of seaweed by, 236; and war, 334
- toitoi, 241
- toki, 328
- totara, 292
- trawling, 232
- trees chosen for house, 290
- Tu, 334 f.
- Tua, see Tohi
- tuahine, 43
- tuakana, 43 f.
- Tuhoromatakaka, 13, 289
- Tuhourangi, mana of, 156
- tui (koko), 266
- tukutuku, 305
- tumingi, 216
- tungane, 43; and tuahine marriage, 61 f.
- tupuna, 47
- Turehu, 123
- Tutanekai, husband of Hinemoa, 92 f.; Tohunga, 13
- tutu, 209
- Typha angustifolia, see raupo
W
- wahaika, 14, 328
- Wahiao, sons of, 35
- waiata, at weddings, 74; see also songs
- wairua, of children born dead, etc., 121 f.
- Walker, Commander, 26
- war, causes of, 330, 336 f.; use of weapons in, 324 f.
- weapons, choice of, 316; training in use of, 315
- weeding, 191
- weka, 267
- whaea, 46
- whakamomori, 79
- Whakarewarewa, 15; birthplace of Makereti, 20; visit to England of, 22; home at, 166 f.
- whakatu waewae, 331 f.
- whakawhanau, 112 f.
- whanau, 34page 352
- whare, common, 228; wharepuni, 286 f., 289; whare whakairo, 288; whare kura or wananga, 154, 286, 310; whare ngaro, 21, 116
- whariki, xi
- whata, 160
- whitebait, 241
- whiu kai, 164
- Wiari, Bella, 7, 19, 23
- widows, 85
- window, 308
- windscreens, 180
- witchcraft, see makutu
- woman and food remove tapi[gap — reason: unclear] house, 294
- work, of girls, 140 f.; of 144 f.; see also labour