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Forest Lore of the Maori

Index

page 412

Index

  • abnormal couple, 167.
  • ahi matini, ceremony, 153.
  • ahi matiti, charm, 276.
  • ahi-rau-huka ceremony, 148-151.
  • ahi taitai ceremony, 237.
  • Ahi-titi, the name, 346.
  • aka in myth, 73.
  • albatross hooked, 352.
  • albino
    • bird, sight unlucky, 292.
    • pigeon, 228.
    • tui, causes bad luck, 292.
  • Allom, titoki-oil, 56.
  • amokura plumes, 353.
  • amulet, aruhe as, 74.
  • Anderson (Cook's Voyages) on birds, 112; on feather-head-dresses, 122; on mamaku, 92; on plant-variety, 4; on tawa, 41.
  • Angas on bark-clothing, 106; feather-ornaments, 122; kelp-container, 284; Maori bridge, 30-31.
  • anklets of karetu, 63.
  • anti-adipose tui, 292.
  • Aotearoa, vessel named after the land, 357; the name, 357.
  • Apa and moa, 185.
  • ara kiore (rat-runs), 364 on.
  • ara pawhati, trail, 28, 307.
  • ara-tiatia, term 29; on cliffs, 220
  • Arohana, his lapse, 273.
  • aruhe, names and varieties, 70-72; work-song in digging, 80; cake soaked in tutu, 81; sustaining food, 81; staple food, 70; variation in roots, 78; taken to Chathams, 85.
  • asking trouble, 143.
  • Ata o Rehua treed, 219.
  • Atiawa bird-spear, 163.
  • atua of the bush, 128.
  • Aubrey, on fern, 77.
  • auguries of fern-bird, 329; of riroriro, 330.
  • authorities quoted, list, 409 on.
  • Awhenga, the name, 105.
  • bait on tui-snares, 298, 299.
  • banned words, 142, 365.
  • barb, origin of, 158.
  • bark
    • and its uses, 103.
    • bending of, 105.
    • troughs, 266.
  • bark-vessels, 103-104, 282, 283.
  • bark-vessels of India, 283.
  • bartering preserved birds, 272.
  • bat, use and abuse of, 331.
  • Bayly, on fern, 77.
  • beetles as food, 69.
  • bell-bird, see korimako.
  • berries eaten, 53.
  • Best, publications by, 412, 413
  • Bidwill, kahikatea berries eaten, 53; on mamaku, 93.
  • big trees, 107.
  • bird-banshees, 125, concert, 112, 113, 114; disappearance, 115; -flocks, names, 118; -lore, 112 on; -monsters, 125; -names, 116-117; -names, additional, 114.
  • bird-preserving chants, 286; ceremonies, 286 on; karakia, 286.
  • bird-taking implements, 153 on.
  • bird-trough, taking of pigeons, 245.
  • bird-young, names, 118.
  • birds attracted by charms, 12; aware of conditions of women, 309; brought to N.Z., 181; heard at night, 13; in ritual, 126, 329.; some not eaten, 270.
  • bitter of mamaku, 94.
  • bittern, 191.
  • blight-bird, arrival of, 326; taking of, 327.
  • blossoming, ornens in, 33, 34.
  • boning a kiore, 383.
  • boundaries taught, 131.
  • boundary-making, 136, 137.
  • breaking branches to mark trail, 28.
  • breast-pole, fording, 30.
  • bridge-building, 30, 31.
  • breeding-birds protected, 141.
  • Brooking, on taking titi, 346-347
  • Brown parrot, see kaka, 192.
  • Brunner on fern-root, 82; on ladders, 224; on potted birds, 274, 275.
  • Buller, enemy of birds, 116; on a form of pewa, 253; taking of ducks, 349.
  • bulletins, etc, by Best, 412, 413.
  • burning injuries soil, 5.
  • bush, extent of, 2; terms for, 3; on Kaikouras, 2-3; originally covered most of the land, 2; names for bush, 3.
  • bush and man kin, 6; origin, 1.
  • bush-wren, luring of, 305.
  • cabbage-tree, food, 86 on.
  • cages for tui, 309, 311, 312.
  • calabashes, how prepared, 281.
  • calabashes of birds, 279.
  • cali-leaf used by fowler, 300, 303.
  • call-leaf for tui, 300, 303, 304, 305.
  • carved designs on water-troughs, 247.
  • caterpillars smoked and charmed, 135.
  • ceremonial birds, 126; feast commemorated, 137; ovens and feasts, 152-153.
  • ceremonies in felling, 6.page 413
  • charm for huahua cooking, 276, 277, 278.
  • charm for ahi matiti, 276.
  • charms used by fowlers, 244, 247.
  • Chathams, introduction of fern, 85-86.
  • Cheeseman, on bats, 331; on parapara-oil. 61.
  • chick-names, 117.
  • Clarke, on snaring pigeons, 244.
  • clay-cased bird cooked, 269.
  • cliff-trails, 29.
  • Coleman Phillips on bird-spear, 157-158.
  • Colenso, on bird-spears, 155, 157; on blight-bird, 327; and feathers, 119; karaka-poison, 47; on kiore as food, 383; on loop-confined spear, and snaring trough, 265; on mamaku, 93, 94; on spearing-method, 164; on spear-points, 159.
  • Cook, Capt. J., on edibility of shags, 345; on feather-head-dresses, 121; on fern, 76; on ladders, 222; on poy-bird, 294; on the rat, 354; on rat pit-traps, 381; on weka, 178.
  • cooked food in bush, 6.
  • cooking birds, 268 on.
  • coprosmas, many names, 302.
  • cormorant, see shag, 343.
  • counting
  • Crawford, on birds, 114; on bell-bird, 321.; on snaring-troughs, 246.
  • crested grebe, see grebe, 342.
  • cross-piece pole-ladder, 222.
  • crow, see kokako, 322.
  • Crozet on birds, 113; on fern, 77; on flax, 102; on fowling-methods, 234.; on implement-shed, 146-147; on the rat, 354.
  • cuckoos snared for plumes, 337.
  • dabchick
  • Darwin and fern, 76.
  • decoy-birds, names of, 201-202.
  • denseness of bush, 4.
  • detachable spear-point, 163.
  • Dieffenbach on bird-taking, 153; on kiwi- sitting, 166; on titi, 346; on vegetation, 4-5.
  • digging of fern, 79, 83.
  • Dillon, preserved flesh, 281.
  • Downes, on bird-spears, 159; on divination by ratters, 366; on double-noose at trough, 267; on taking kaka, 207, 214; on kiore pit-traps, 381; cooking of kiore, 384; on patua, 283; on tui-decoys, 304.
  • dream-omens. 143.
  • ducks taken for food, 347.
  • Du Clesmeur, on fowling, 165.
  • durability of timber, 110.
  • dyeing with bark, 105.
  • earthquakes and seasons. 34.
  • Ecuador and Maori tuki, 280.
  • Ecuador jars, 280.
  • Edgar, on bird-concert, 113; on fern, 77.
  • egg-names, 119.
  • eggs, restricted to birds, 123, 124.
  • emu of N.Z., 165, 166.
  • emu on Kawau, 188.
  • endearments, fragrances, 63.
  • extinct birds, list, 116.
  • Eyre (at Kaikouras,) 2-3.
  • fable of kumara and fern, 76.
  • fantail, 331.
  • fat prized by Maori, 382.
  • feather-boxes, 121; -decorations for calabashes, 282, 283; -head-dresses, 121. feathers for gourd-vessels, 282; for huahua, 270.
  • feathers names for, 119.
  • Featon, on snaring-troughs, 246.
  • fern-bird as augur, 143, 329.
  • fern-root, aruhe, 70 on; pounder, 82.
  • fertilization of plants, 5.
  • fire and quarrels, 1-2.
  • firing of fern-land, 78, 79.
  • first-fruits, 149.
  • flax, 100 on; varieties, 101; unsuitable for snares, 265.
  • flax-flower and tide, 100.
  • flightless birds, taking of, 165.
  • flock-names (birds), 118.
  • food eaten under roof, 147.
  • food-baskets, forest and sea, 2.
  • food-supplies obtained, 36.
  • foot-loop in climbing, 217.
  • fording rivers, 29.
  • foreboding, 143.
  • forest, see bush.
  • Forster (with Capt. Cook), on edibility of shags, 345; on fern, 76; on mamaku, 92; on Maori article he, 295; on Maori foresight, 85; on tui-name, 295.
  • fowling, 112 on, 127 on.
  • fowling areas, 129-130.
  • fowling-pieces disliked, 244.
  • fragrances, plants used, 62.
  • frontlets, 122.
  • fruiting of trees, irregular. 59.
  • fungi as food, 97, 98, 99.
  • game-concession, 130-131.
  • game-rights, 129.
  • game-tribute, 130.
  • gifts, ceremonial, 272-273.
  • go-ashore, corruption of kohua, 271.
  • gods all one, 75.
  • godwit, 350 on.
  • gourds for calabashes, 281-282.
  • gourds, cleaning of, 282.
  • gourds for preserved birds, 278; for water, 283; ornamentation of, 279.
  • grebe, 342.
  • greenstone spear-points, 161.
  • Grey and rahui, 141.
  • grey warbler, 330.page 414
  • green beetle on manuka, 349.
  • green branch symbol, 27.
  • greens cooked by Maori, 96.
  • gums, fragrant, 61.
  • gums, vegetable, 60, 61.
  • Haast on birdsong, 114; and robin, 325; on taking pigeon, 245; on the weka, 175.
  • Hahore at fern-root digging, 85.
  • hair-oil, 60.
  • hakoke (rock owl), 116.
  • Hammond, T. G., on Maori rat, 380.
  • hapua, meanings, 4.
  • harakeke in myth, 73; use of, 100 on; varieties, 101.
  • hau and mauri, 9.
  • hau of the bush, offering to, 150.
  • hauhau, taking of tui, 303.
  • Haumia and fern-root, 72, 73, 75.
  • Haunui, pungent remark, 107.
  • hawk, 334, on.
  • head of Rehua, 1.
  • Heaphy, on bell-bird, 321; on ladders, 224.
  • hei, neck-ornaments, 63.
  • Heipipi, the name, 302, 310.
  • heketara, synonyms, 62.
  • Henry, on kakapo, 172.
  • herbs, edible, 96.
  • heron-plumes, 341.
  • hinahina, useless, 106.
  • hinau, food-supplies, 36; bread, 37; proverb, 39.
  • hinau, timber, 40-41; pigment from bark, 40, 41.
  • hinau foretelling seasons, 35.
  • Hine-ahu-one, 1.
  • Hine-kotau-ariki, fern-root, 74.
  • Hine-mahanga and snaring, 15.
  • Hine-mataihi, progenitor of rat, 356.
  • Hine-raumati, wife of Ra, 272; connected with huahua, 272.
  • Hine-raumati and huahua, 272.
  • Hine-takurua, wife of Ra, 272.
  • Hine-wairua-kokako, origin of kokako, 323.
  • Hinutohu and Ruaumoko, 333.
  • Hoani Hipango, tui-names, 292.
  • Hodder, cooking of bird, 269.
  • Hokowhitu a Te Rangitawhia, 12; honey esteemed, 83; collected, 99.
  • hopu, taking of tui, 305.
  • Hori Ropiha, on kiore swimming the Pacific, 361; detestableness of European rat, 362; taking of tui, 305, 306.
  • hospitality politic, 273.
  • houhi-bark, ropes and cloth, 105.
  • huahua, birds in, 278 on.
  • huahua, charm used, 276, 278.
  • huahua manu, 270; as presents, 272.
  • huia, prized, 179; number of tail-feathers, 179; range of, 179; a pet of Tautu, 180; caged, 181; slaughter of, 181; brought on Takitumu, 181.
  • Hui-te-ananui, house of Hinutohu, 333.
  • human flesh preserved, 281.
  • human lard, 281.
  • human sacrifice, 140, 141.
  • Ikikaha, a tree, 15.
  • Impey on rats as food, 361.
  • implement-shed, 146.
  • incomprehensible karakia, 278, 289.
  • Ira-motumotu, his flock of kokako, 322.
  • iron spear-point, 162.
  • irregular fruiting, 59.
  • Iwi-katere and his tui, 314.
  • Iwikino Hairuha, mauri, 11.
  • jackdaw and fine feathers, 323.
  • Kae tracked by tame gulls, 352 note.
  • Kahu at Chathams, 85, 86.
  • kahu (hawk), in myth, 334; snared, 335.
  • Kahukino, his tui, 316.
  • Kaingaroa at Chathams, 86.
  • kaipuke maori for sailing-ship, 359.
  • kai-ramua offence, 133.
  • kaka, taking of, 192 on; albino, 193; various names, 194; various cries, 194; kaka and kakariki, 195; easily taken when fat, 195; seen flying in from sea, 195; carries a stone, 196; foreign stones in crops, 196; taught to talk, 197; its foods, 197; nest merely a hole (puta), 198; spearing, 198; trees where taken, 199-200; trees offended, 200; trees protected, 200-201; decoys, 201; legrings, 202; females tamed more quickly than males, 203; methods of taking, 203-204; irritating the decoy, 204.
  • kakapo, hunting, 170; formerly in North Island, 171; scratching-holes, 172; dance of, 173; skinned, 174.
  • kakariki, see parakeet, 381.
  • Kake-wahine, a tree worked by women, 239.
  • Kanae in Ponaturi myth, 317.
  • Karaha the trespasser, 129.
  • karaka, food-supplies, 44; introduction of plant, 45, 358; poison of, 45-46; proverbial sayings, 48-49.
  • karakia, bird-preserving, 286.
  • karakia, concerning mauri, 8, 9, 10.
  • karakia, with ponga as food, 95.
  • karakia huahua, 277-278.
  • karengo, seaweed-food, 53.
  • karetu-fragrance, 63; sachets, 63; anklets, 63.
  • karoro tamed, 352.
  • kauri, fine size, 107.
  • kauri-gum, 61.
  • kauru digging, etc,, 87 on.
  • kawau, see shag.
  • kekerewai beetle, 69; as duck-food, 349.
  • kelp-container, 284.
  • kereru, kuku, kukupa, taking, 226 on; comes in from sea, 228; snaring of, 229 on; snared on miro, 230; trees frequented by, 231; ate leaves, 231; poor page 415on kowhai, 231; avoids black maire, 231; feeding-time, 231; desiderata in snaring-trees, 232; attending to snares, 233; names of snares, 233-234; pink of feet as paint, 228; various methods of taking the bird, 235 on; material for snares, 235; decoys used, 243; offerings made by fowler, 243; spearing of, 245; taken by mutu, 245; bird-trough taking, 245; trees on which taken, 230-232; details of troughs, 247; dead birds hidden, 268; counting of birds, 268; preparing for cooking, 268; tail-feathers kept, 270; preserving birds in fat, 270; cooking and potting, 273-274; preserving done by women, 275; method, 275; ceremonies at opening of season, 237-238.
  • Kettle, on cooking birds, 269; on fording, 30.
  • kiekie, food from, 55.
  • kingfisher, 330.
  • kiore (rat) snared, 353 on; three species, 353; differing scientists, 354; Cook saw rat, 354; Crozet probably saw introduced rat, 354; in Maori myth, 355-356; in folk-lore, 356, introduced from Polynesia, 357; on Aotea, 357; and on others, 357; various names, 359; foods of, 360; eaten by Europeans, 361; kiore swam the Pacific, 361, 362; swam rivers, 363; Cook strait, 363; method of snaring, 364 on; South Island methods, 366; rich and palatable food, 367; trapping ruined by Europeans 367; favourite haunts, 368; traps described, 368 on; bait sometimes used, 372; a portable trap, 376; figure 4 trap, 377; charm recited, 377-378; pit-trap, 378; rats plucked, 379; potted, 389; pit-traps, Matatua dist., 380; Waiapu pit-traps, 380; cooking of, 382; charm for cooking, 382; in present, 382; preserved in water, 383; preserving by Matatua, 383; terms used for cooking, 384; Whanganui cooking, 384; kiore, chants, 289; brought to N.Z., 74; pit-traps, Hawaii, 381.
  • kiwi, taking of, 165 on; first skin in England, 165; various names for, 106; hunting, 168 on; feathers handled carefully 168; taken by dogs, 169; attracted by fire, 170; -incubation, 166-167.
  • knotted-cord message, 338.
  • koata, food, 94.
  • koekoea plumes, 337; the name koheperoa, 337; brought on Takitumu, 337; meta-morphosis of, 337; noted by navigators, 338.
  • koheke, squeezing-bag, 57.
  • kohia-oil, 60.
  • kokako, not relished as food, 322; in myth, 323.
  • koko, a name of tui, 292.
  • kopa of Ngatiawa, 57.
  • kopani lid, 279.
  • kopua, squeezing-bag, 57.
  • Kopua a Noni, in Waiapu, 219.
  • korapa, snare for robin, 324.
  • korau food-supply, 92, 95.
  • koreke, quail, 192.
  • korimako (bell-bird), music of, 321; taken for food, 322; will respond to leaf-call, 305.
  • kotare (kingfisher), 330.
  • kotuku (heron) plumes, 341.
  • kouka wharanui for snares, 235.
  • Koukou, personifikation of owl, in myth,. 333.
  • kounu, to bone a rat, 383.
  • kuaka (godwit) taken for food, 350 on.
  • kukuraho-root, 91.
  • kumikumi, throat-tuft, 293.
  • Kupe and Turi, and settlement in Aotea-roa, 357-358; cargo carried, 358.
  • kuruwai, see robin, 323.
  • ladders used, 216 on.
  • land seized by pou-rahui, 136.
  • lard, human, 281.
  • laughing-owl, 334.
  • leg-rings of birds, 202.
  • lemming swimming to sea, 363.
  • life-lines on cliffs, 220.
  • liver for shark-oil, 60.
  • lizard guards mauri, 8.
  • loop-confined spear, 266.
  • longtailed cuckoo, see koekoea, 337.
  • luck-post, 145.
  • McDonald, taking shag, 343.
  • McDonnell, snaring at Hokianga, 241.
  • Maclean on ladders, 226.
  • Mahia and kia-parapara, 134.
  • mahoe, see hinahina, 106.
  • Mahuru, heralded by cuckoo, 339.
  • maiere spear, 158.
  • maikaika-root, 91.
  • maize as food, 37, 38.
  • Makauri bush, 127, 128.
  • makiri process, 275.
  • mamaku food-supply, 92.
  • Manaia, rat-chant, 289-291.
  • Manaia, tau manu, 290-291.
  • manatawa, in birds' crops, 42.
  • Mangakino, frail bridge, 30.
  • Mangamuka stream, snares on, 239.
  • manuka for bird-spear, 157.
  • manuka-bark for roofing, 104.
  • manu nui a Ruakapanga, 125.
  • Maori gulling Pakeha, 186-187.
  • Maori texts given, 388 on.
  • mapara durable, 156.
  • mapau, a mauri, 11-12.
  • Mariner, nose-feather, 123.
  • Maru, ofFerings to, 243.
  • masticatory, taramea, 64; tawhiri, 65.
  • masticatory, kauri, 61.
  • masticatories, 66.page 416
  • Mataaho and Mataora, 356.
  • Mataharua, vessel, 358.
  • Matahi, May-season, 34.
  • Matatua on fungi, 98-99.
  • Matatua kiore pit-traps, 380.
  • Matatua, preserving kiore, 383.
  • Matatua on mamaku, 94.
  • Matatua, titoki-oil, 56.
  • material symbols, 139.
  • matiti, a special cooking, 276.
  • Matthews on bird-spears, 157; on snaring, 238.
  • matuku, offspring of Ponga, 191.
  • Maui and barb, 158.
  • maukuuku-roots, 91.
  • Maungapohatu, mauri of, 11.
  • mauri of bush, 6 on.
  • mekameka, a ladder, 226.
  • Menzies and poe-bird, 295.
  • meteors, 34.
  • Meyen, on mamaku, 93.
  • miro, manner of growth, 246; snares set on, 230; -oil, 61.
  • miromiro (tomtit) 328; in rites and legend, 329.
  • moa, 182 on; absurdities recorded, 182-183; the name, 183; Ngahue made it known, 184; eater of air, 185; references in song, 187.
  • mocking-bird, the tui, 308.
  • Mohi Turei, on snaring tui, 297, 299; wise-cracks on rats, 359.
  • moho, term for rail, 116.
  • moko guardians, 7-8.
  • momoutu, luring of, 305.
  • monkey taken for Irawaru, 188.
  • months, names, 34.
  • moonlight disliked by rats and eels, 366.
  • rnorepork, 332.
  • moss used, 111.
  • mouku no use for snares, 237.
  • mouse, 358.
  • muritai, a rat-name, 383.
  • mutton-bird, 345 on.
  • mutton-birds in poha, 285.
  • mutu, taking of kaka, 207 on.
  • mutu, taking of tui, 297.
  • mythical birds, 124.
  • naming avoided by hunter, 142.
  • native thrush, 323.
  • natural similes, 385 on.
  • nests, floating, 342.
  • Newman, on calabashes, 279.
  • Newman on tuki, 279.
  • Nicholas on birds, 114.
  • night-travel avoided, 32.
  • mkau-lesives eaten, 91.
  • Noni and his escape, 219-220.
  • noosing the kaka, 207.
  • nose-feather, 123.
  • Nuku-taimemeha, canoe of Maui 356.
  • Ngahue and moa, 184.
  • Ngai Tahu on taking of kereru, 240; ti-roots, 86; on the weka 177.
  • Ngati Awa kopa, 57; leaves for fragrance, 62, 63.
  • Ngati Porou, bird-preserving karakia, 288; snaring kukupa at water, 242; do not use water-troughs in snaring, 243, 246; on mauri, 8-11; teaching tui, 310-311; setting of snares, 239.
  • Ngawahinekaiawatea, name changed, 220
  • ngehingehi, squeezing-bag, 56.
  • ngeri for mamaku, 94.
  • odours, taste in, 65.
  • offerings by fowlers, 243, 268, 274.
  • oil, scented, 60, 61.
  • o-kaka, 196.
  • ornens from birds, 127; in blossoming, 35; in nature, 127.
  • Opi, bartered for huahua, 272.
  • Oporo Paerata, on tui-speech, 311-312.
  • orchid-root food, 90.
  • origin-myths, 1.
  • outlooks on paths, 28.
  • pae, taking of tui, 304.
  • pa harakeke and pa ti, 3.
  • pakapaka, dried foods, 84.
  • Pani and origin of rat, 355, 356.
  • papai-roots, 90.
  • papaki of calabash, 280.
  • para as food, 89.
  • parakeet, its red feathers taken by kaka, 319; methods of taking, 319 on; egg-shells became lizards, 321; former plenty, 318.
  • parapara-oil, 61.
  • Parata treed Te Ata, 219.
  • Paratene Ngata and Maori rat, 361.
  • Parauri, bird-guardian, 128; originated tui, 291.
  • parera (duck) as food, 347 on: description of taking, 348-349, 350.
  • Parkinson on head-dresses, 121-122.
  • parson bird, see tui, 291.
  • Patea and Hine-mahanga, 15.
  • patotara root, fragrance, 62.
  • paths and travelling, 28.
  • patua, bark-vessels, 283; making of, 283.
  • patu-aruhe, 82.
  • pawera, apprehension, 143.
  • pehapehatu reproach, 146.
  • peka-o Haumia, 75.
  • pekapeka (bat), 331.
  • perch and shelter for decoy, 203.
  • perei-roots, 90-91.
  • pests introduced, 2.
  • pests and birds, 115.
  • pewa, taking of tui, 299-300.
  • pia manuka as food, 66.
  • pia tarata, 61-62.
  • pied tit, see miromiro, 328.
  • pigeon, see kereru.
  • Piki-wahine, a tree worked by women, 239
  • Pio of Awa, lore of, 34.
  • piopio (thrush), 323.page 417
  • pipiwharauroa, as sea-guide, 338; its parent a lizard, 339; its cries, 339; addressed by children, 339; messenger of Mahuru, 339; the name, 340.
  • pit-of-death, 136.
  • pitopito, amulet, 74.
  • pit-trap for rats, 378.
  • plant-names from Polynesia, 23 on.
  • platforms in tree-tops, 164, 213.
  • plumes of feathers, 119 on.
  • plume-providing birds, 125.
  • Poananga and seasons, 33.
  • poey, poy, etc, 293 on.
  • poha of seaweed, 284.
  • poha rimu, 274, 284; making at Whare-ponga, 285.
  • pohue-roots, 90.
  • poisonous fungi, 98-99.
  • Polack on birds, 114, 115; human lard, 281; novel pigeon-capture, 229; rat and cat eaten, 383.
  • pole-ladder, 220.
  • pollen, name for, 5.
  • pollen-bread of raupo, 69.
  • Polynesian and Maori bird-names, 117; plant-names, 23 on.
  • pomades, 61.
  • Ponaturi purloin tui, 316.
  • poniania, 123.
  • ponga as food, 95.
  • popokatea (whitehead), 325, 326.
  • Porter and foot-loop, 219.
  • position on tree for snares, 240.
  • potato, alleged introduction, 96.
  • potete, bark-yessels, 283.
  • Potts and diminution of birds, 116; on mamaku, 94; on para 90.
  • poua, mythical bird, 124.
  • pouakai, mythical bird, 124.
  • Pouakani, near Taupo, 86.
  • pouhawaiki, introduced rat, 359.
  • pou-rahui, 136, 137.
  • Pourangahua, bird-borne, 126.
  • preserving birds in fat, 270.
  • prized seabirds, 352.
  • proverbs, see sayings.
  • pua, bird-haunt, 13-14.
  • pua, pollen of raupo, 68.
  • Pua a Te Roku, 14.
  • puaka, trap for birds, 173.
  • puha, species of, 96.
  • puhore, 142.
  • Puia, on plucking kiore, 383.
  • pukana, taught by owl, 333.
  • pukapuka-gum, 65.
  • Puke-ahurangi peak, 155.
  • Puke-amoamo peak, 155.
  • pukeko, taking of, 190 on; Pakura in myth, 190; a nuisance, 190; brought on Horouta, 191.
  • Puketiti, shags taken, 346-347.
  • pukurau, rapid growth, 98.
  • puku-tawai, 99.
  • Punaweko, bird-guardian, 128; in tau manu 290-291.
  • punk from fungus, 99.
  • pupoho, use of, 283.
  • puta, feeding-grounds, 351.
  • pu-tutu, 50.
  • puwhawha, lifeless timber, 107.
  • rahui prohibition, 132 on; and human sacrifice, 140; on fern areas, 85; protection of, 138-139; may sleep, 138-139.
  • rain tolerated, 32.
  • Rakaihaitu and moa, 185.
  • Rakaihika and taitai rite, 151.
  • rama, noun and verb, 307.
  • Ranapiri, arts of fowler, 300; method of crossing Pacific by kiore, 362; pit-trap for rats, 379.
  • rank respected if worthy, 133.
  • Rangi-kawhetui treed, 219.
  • rangiora leaves for covering fat, 280.
  • Rangiura, the name, 105.
  • rangiura, inner bark, 283.
  • Rarataungarere, 6.
  • Rarohenga and variant names, 75.
  • Rarotonga and moa, 188.
  • rata, 108 on; hosts of, 108; freaks of, 110.
  • rats preserved, chants, 289; see kiore.
  • rats were Maori rabbits, 383.
  • rau huka snares, 237-238.
  • Raukawa on maurf, 9, 10.
  • raukawa leaves fragrant, 66.
  • raupo, terms connected with, 68; roots as food, 69; bread, 68; in myth, 73.
  • re-cooking (tawhanarua), 214.
  • red-feather cloak, 129.
  • red-tailed tropic-bird, 353.
  • Rehua, the ripener, 51; and berries, 2; mountain-abodes, 33; and tui, 291; as Antares, 291.
  • Rehunga and the pou-rahui, 136; present of huahua, 272.
  • ribbonwood-bark, 105.
  • Richardson, on attracting birds, 305; on travelling, 31.
  • rimu container, 274, 275.
  • riroriro (grey warbler), 330.
  • rito, edible leaves, 91.
  • river-crossing, 29.
  • robin, 323.
  • rock-owl, 116.
  • roller and skid, principle, 57-59.
  • Rongomaraeroa is kumara, 74.
  • Rongorongo, wife of Turi, 357.
  • roniu-fragrance, 63.
  • root foods, miscellaneous, 86.
  • Ropiha, art of the fowler, 244.
  • Roto a Tara, rahui at, 135.
  • rou, a ladder, 222.
  • Ruakapanga, his bird, 125.
  • Ruakapanga and moa, 184.
  • Ruaumoko, father of mountains, 33.
  • Ruaumoko and Hinutohu, 333.
  • Rua o Tane, a tree, 200.
  • Ruawharo and kokako, 322.page 418
  • Rupe, honorific term for pigeon, 226, 228.
  • rum (morepork), 332; in myth, 332, 333.
  • Rutland, on blight-bird, 326.
  • rutu, taking of tui, 306-307.
  • sachets for fragrances, 63.
  • sacrifice in completing a sacred building, 332.
  • saddleback, 323.
  • Savage, on fern, 77.
  • Saville, Ecuador jars, 280.
  • sayings: on the mauri of the bush, 8, 9, 10; gossip on the taumata, 28; position in travelling-party, 31; advantages of an easy path, 32; evils of a gloomy one in bush, 33; waking for hinau-bread, 39; on tawa berries, 42; vitality of a human as opposed to titoki branch, 59; chiefs of titoki year 60; on fragrant sleeping-places, 64; pounding fern-root at night, 72; digging-up of Haumia, 73-74; terms for fern-root, 75; providence and improvidence, 84, 85 (2); digging or fighting all one, 85; spoken word reproduces like ti, 87; toroa a source of decoration, 123; a great chief and a shade-giving rata, 108; the totara for the billows, 106; the totara surrounded by trees as a chief by his people, 107; escaped weka and snare, 175; bittern-cry foretells rloods, 191; mischievous kaka, 193; kaka proclaiming dawn, 194; kaka and visitor, 195; fruitful tree and fruitful rock, 199; risks of tree-climbing, 218; daintiness in feeding; and greed, 230 (2); full and hungry birds, 231; the huahua nonpareil, 271; poor food wins poor aid, 273; old folk inferior food, 273; on talkative folk, 291-292, bats and night-farers, 331; bell-bird and restlessness, 322; bell-bird and flighty women, kokako and fleet foot, 322; hawk and open country, 334; hawk and rat, 334; white hawk a protector, 335; rarity of heron, 342; daintiness of heron feeding, 342; appearance of Hinutohu, 333. kawau and stretched neck, 344; para-keets and children, 318; parakeets and chattering folk, 318; early feeders, 318; rats and walking single-file, 357; on a smooth garment, 357; robin and dilated eyes at evening, 325; titi and staying-power, 345; unseen flight, 345; chick of one feeding, 346; tids and eels, 302.
  • scents, 60 on.
  • seabirds' feathers, 352.
  • seagulls tamed, 352; crack shell-fish, 352.
  • seasons, 33, 272; ornens of, 34; predicted by birds, 128, 341.
  • seaweed eaten, 53.
  • seaweed vessels, 284.
  • sententious sayings, see sayings.
  • sentry birds, 174.
  • sex of plants, 5.
  • shag, caught like hawk, 343; straight flight, 344; offspring of Terepunga, 344; eaten by Cook, 345.
  • shark-oil, 60.
  • shining cuckoo, see pipiwharauroa, 339
  • Shortland on bell-birds, 113; on fording, 29; poha, 285-286; taramea-gum, 64.
  • silent welcoming, 288.
  • silvereye, see blight-bird.
  • similes from nature, 285 on.
  • singing of birds, terms for, 115.
  • sleep-movements, ornens, 142, 168-169.
  • slimming by tui, 292.
  • snares, making of, 235; made in special shed, 146.
  • soil, working of, 79-80.
  • spaniard-roots, 90.
  • spearing of tui, 302.
  • spears, fowling, 153 on.
  • spear-points, 158 on.
  • spring-warmth of fourth month, 34.
  • squeezing-out of oil, 56.
  • Stack, on poha, 286; pouakai, 124.
  • stars as plant-parents, 33.
  • step-ladder, 224.
  • stitch-bird, 323.
  • stone-boiling, 271.
  • storage of aruhe, 81.
  • Strange, on the rat, 355.
  • stream reserved by rahui, 137.
  • summer, Mahuru, 339.
  • supplejack, first mention, 55.
  • swamp-trails, 29.
  • taha for preserved birds, 278.
  • taha huahua, 278 on.
  • tahei snaring, 235; taking of tui 301.
  • Tahumate and seasons, 33.
  • taitai formula, 151.
  • Takapari, a hinau, 35.
  • taki, taking of kaka, 205-206.
  • takiari, omen, 142-143.
  • Tamaiwaho, present of kiore, 382-383.
  • Tamataha and thief-vengeance, 133-134.
  • Tamatea and moa, 185, 189.
  • Tamatea-kai-taharua and greenstone spear-point, 161.
  • Tama-te-ra and tui-adept, 314.
  • tameness of birds, 114; of thirsty pigeons, 243.
  • Tane placated, 6.
  • tapu, degrees of, 134; service of 132; tapu of bush, 6.
  • tapui-sign, 130.
  • Tapuwae-putuputu, fern-root, 74.
  • tara kaniwha, origin of, 158-159.
  • tarake manu. bird-haunt, 13.
  • Taramahiti, bartered for huahua 272.
  • taramea-gum, 64.
  • Tarapounamu, and spear-point, 161.
  • Tararua, origin of name, 155.
  • tarata flowers for scent, 61.
  • tarata-oil, 60, 61-62.
  • tari method, 244.
  • tauhinu charm, 243.
  • taumaha charm, 150, 277.page 419
  • tau manu and tau kiore, 289.
  • taumata, an outlook, 28.
  • Taumata kokiri, a meteor, 34.
  • Tau o Uenuku, a karakia, 287.
  • Taupanui, mauri at, 11-12.
  • Taupara, Tauparoa, battles over a tui, 314-316.
  • Taura-tukutuku, reason for name, 220.
  • Tauwhare manuka, mauri at, 11; tawa, food-supplies, 41; two species, 41; bird-spears, 41; proverbial expression, 42; steaming of berries, 43-44; for bird-spear, 155; wood perishable, 156.
  • tawaha-aruhe, 78.
  • Tawhaki and koheperoa plumes, 337; and snared birds, 130.
  • tawhanarua, 274.
  • tawhauarua offence, 7.
  • tawhiri-gum, 65.
  • tawhiti spring-trap described, 368 on;
  • tawhiti makamaka, a portable trap, 376; tawhiti papa, figure 4 trap, 377; for rats, 364.
  • Tawhitinui, fall due to tui, 316.
  • Tawhito-o-te-rangi, 33.
  • Taylor, on blight-bird, 326; flightlcss birds, 166; kohia-oil, 60; mamaku, 92, 93; patotara scent, 62; seaweed vessels, 284; rat, 355; taking frozen tui, 306.
  • teaching of tui, 310-311.
  • teaching the young idea, 131-132.
  • teal, see ducks, 347.
  • Terepunga and shag, 344.
  • Thomson on disappearing birds, 115; fern, 78; bush-silence, 114; the rat, 355.
  • Thompson, P., diggers ate rats, 383.
  • thoughts affect luck, 146.
  • thrush, 323.
  • ti-roots as food, 86 on.
  • tieke (saddleback), 323.
  • tiepa, attraction of, 13.
  • ti haere, taking of tui, 297.
  • tihe (stitch-bird), 323.
  • Tiki-kapakapa and birds, 277.
  • timber, best within the bush, 106.
  • tinder from fungus, 99.
  • tipua, abnormal tree, eta, 7.
  • titi (mutton-bird) used for food, 345 on; fires lit to attract them, 346; netting of, 346-347; preserved in poha, 285; settling in pairs, 166.
  • titi matai, 280.
  • Titinaroa swamp, 29.
  • titoki oil, 55.
  • Tiwhaia, bird-guardian, 128.
  • Tohu a Te Ropu, eatly rata, 110
  • Toi and moa, 185.
  • toilet-oil, 55-56.
  • toitoiakewa, 143-144.
  • Tongariro at Chathams, 86.
  • torch and taking tui, 307.
  • totara highly prized, 106; names of, 5.
  • totara- bark for vessels, 282-283.
  • tatara-clump a mauri, 12.
  • toutouwai (robin), snaring, 324.
  • tracks, 28.
  • travelling in bush, 28.
  • tree-climbing, 216.
  • tree-dwellings, 35.
  • tree to tree pole-ways, 226-227.
  • trees and ceremonial, 26-27.
  • trees and plants, terms for, 15.
  • trespass-apology, 129-130.
  • trough of water, pigeons taken at, 245-246.
  • tuapa, luck-post, 144.
  • tuhira, 144.
  • Tuhoe, description of mauri, 11.
  • tui, taken for food, 291 on; originated with Parauri, 291; also called koko and descended from Rehua, 291; various names, 291; the name tute, 292; the name koko, 292; its aggressiveness, 292; name of throat-tuft, 293 on; the word pohoi, 293; devices for taking tui, 296 on; its foods, 296; pecking itself when fat, 292; bait on snares, 298; call-leaf used, 300; decoys used, 304; taking on frosty nights, 305-306; counting the birds, 308; taught to speak, 308 on; cage for, 309; food of captives 309; visitors announced, 310; kinds named, 310; on teaching tui, 310-311; phrases learned, 313 on; charms repeated, 314; caused wars, 314 on; talking-tui stolen by Ponaturi, 316; tui slimming, 292.
  • tuki of gourd calabash, 279.
  • Tu-mataika and the kaka, 193.
  • tumu, taking of tui, 298.
  • Tuota, a charm, 365.
  • Tupakaka and taitai rite, 151.
  • Tupua-o-te-rangi, 33.
  • Turehu, first people in N.Z., 75.
  • Turi and migration to Aotearoa, 357.
  • Tutakangahau on rua huka and other rites, 151-153; on rahui, 138.
  • Tuta Nihoniho, on titi, 280; on tui-speech, 311; preserving, 277, 280.
  • tute, a name of tui, 292.
  • tutu, food-supplies, 49; poison of, 50-52; beverage, 51-52; dye, 52; jelly, 51.
  • tutu, birds preserved in fat, 278.
  • tuwhana, breast-pole, 29, 30.
  • twelve, the number, 293-294.
  • unappetizing foods, 37-38.
  • unlucky acts and thoughts, 141-142, 143-144.
  • Urewera night-travellers, 32.
  • uruora, fruitful lands, 14.
  • Uru-takohekohe, tutu-preserve, 49.
  • uruuru whenua rite, 10.
  • vermin and berries, 1.
  • vital principle of bush, 6.
  • Wade, toilet-oil, 55; tutu-drink, 52.
  • waewae taurekareka, good walker, 32.
  • Waiapu kiore pit-traps, 380-381.
  • Wai-a-te-roku, 14.page 420
  • Waiohine, fording, 30.
  • wai poka, for snaring, 243.
  • wairekeia, puzzling word, 292.
  • wai tai and wai tuna, 277.
  • wai tuhi, for snaring, 243, 245, 246.
  • wai tumu, snaring streams, 243,
  • Wakefield on ladders, 224-226.
  • Ward, on seaweed-vessels, 284.
  • waro-rahui, 135, 136.
  • water highly esteemed, 271-272
  • weka, taking of, 175 on.
  • weweia (grebe), 343.
  • whakamoe, taking of tui, 305.
  • whakaoho a mauri, 9.
  • whakaoho-rahui, 139.
  • whakarua of kakapo, 174.
  • whakatauki derived from nature 385 on.
  • Whanga, mythical bird at, 124.
  • whangai hau, 150.
  • Whangai-manuhiri, mauri at 11.
  • Whanganui, titoki-oil, 56; cooking of kiore, 384; rat-names, 360; powers of swimming, 363.
  • wharauroa, the name, 340; applied to grain in wood and streak in stone, 340; excrement eaten, 341; season foretold, 341.
  • whare mata or takaha, 146.
  • whata-pakapaka, 84.
  • Whatonga and cuckoo-guides 338.
  • whaunu, charms, 247, 277.
  • whekau (laughing-owl), 334.
  • Whirinaki, beauty of, 115.
  • White, on taking godwit, 350.
  • whitehead, 325.
  • white heron, see kotuku, 341.
  • whitiki-knot, 267.
  • 'wild' Maori folk, 178.
  • Wilkes and tui, 295.
  • Williams, titoki- oil, 57.
  • Wilson, pit-trap for rats, 378; feud over tui, 316.
  • Winirehe, hospitality, 273.
  • women defiles tapu, 147.
  • women snared birds, 239.
  • wood pigeon, see kereru, 226.
  • workhouse for fowler, 146.
  • Yate, on birds, 113; huia, 182.