Forest Lore of the Maori
Index
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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
- 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
- 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.
- quail, 192.
- 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.
- 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.