The Maori Race
Contents
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Chapter I. Introductory
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Chapter II. Bodily Characteristics
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Chapter III. Mental Characteristics and Propensities
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Chapter IV. Birth, Etc
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Chapter V. Games.—Music.—Language
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Chapter VI. Poetry, Song, Proverbs. Fables.—Tribal Mottoes
- Chapter VII. Food, Cultivation, Etc. Canoes
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Chapter VIII. Rank, Rights of Property. Habits
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Chapter IX. Chiefs and Priests.—Slaves and Servitude.—Names of Places, Etc
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Chapter X. The Dog and Other Animals.—The Moa.—Fishing
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Chapter XI. Tapu.—Curses.—Dreams and Omens.—Offerings
- Chapter XII. Textiles.—Dress.—Ornaments
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Chapter XIII. Houses, Habitations, Etc
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Chapter XIV. Marriage, Etc
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Chapter XV. Forts.—Weapons.—Tools.—Mana
- Chapter XVI. War (including War Omens and Murder, Preserved Human Heads)
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Chapter XVII. Whare-Kura.—Genealogies.—Burial.—Heavenly Bodies
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Chapter XVIII. The Future World.—Ghosts.—Notion Of Scientific Facts
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Chapter XIX. Myths and Traditions
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Chapter XX. Religion and Cosmogony
- Chapter XXI. The Tohunga and Witchcraft.—Fairies, Ogres, Monsters, Etc
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Chapter XXII. The Whence of the Maori—Former Inhabitants
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Chapter XXIII. The Moriori
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Chapter XXIV. Modern History
- Appendix