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The Material Culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki)
Contents
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Contents.
| Page | |
| Foreword | vii |
| List of half-Tone Plates | xi |
| Acknowledgments | xiii |
| Introduction | xvii |
| Chapter I.—Houses | 1-42 |
| Foundation. Framework. Roof and roof ridging. Gable ends. House walls. Screens, Door. Interior arrangement. Special houses. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter II.—Domestic Furniture, Utensils, Accessories, Cords, and Ropes | 43-75 |
| Furniture—Wooden seats and chiefs' seats. Utensils—Small vessels, water containers, and wooden vessels. Food pounders. Fire production, ovens, food platforms, and food stretchers. Carrying pole. Cocoanut husker, grater, and wringer. Bread fruit. Cords and ropes. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter III.—Clothing and Footwear | 76-103 |
| Bark cloth—material, manufacture, and kinds of cloth. Clothing not made of bark cloth—ti leaf kilts, hibiscus bast kilts. Armlets and leg bands. Head-dresses. Sandals. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter IV.—Mats | 104-162 |
| The craft of plaiting, definitions. Material, preparation. Plaiting technique—commencement, side edges, body, join, finish. Dyeing. Decorative borders—technique, commencement, side bands, and corners. Coloured wefts— fixation, change of stroke. Decorative bands— composition, technique of design, main motives. Motives on plain surfaces. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter V.—Baskets and Fans | 163-207 |
| Food platters, raurau. Round food basket, ohini. Cocoanut leaf baskets—tapora and kete nikau. Pandanus leaf basket, kete rau. Adaptation of mat technique and coloured designs. Fans. Comparisons. | page x |
| Chapter VI.—Stonework | 208-256 |
| Rough stonework—sacred places, buildings, fish weirs, boundary stones, walls, roads, stone seats. Stone implements—adzes, definitions, triangular types and varieties, quadrangular types, other island types. Chisels. Haftings. Food pounders. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter VII.—Canoes | 257-276 |
| Material. Single-outrigger canoes—hull, top boards, bow and stern covers, seats. Outrigger booms, float, float connection, longitudinal boom. Mast, sail, anchor, and bailer. Double canoes, historical. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter VIII.—Fishing | 277-316 |
| Cocoanut leaf material—makaatu, torau, mauru, tu-uoa, torches. Technique of net making. Bag nets—huata flying-fish net, hopai scoop net, ngake hand net. Set nets—tuturua, fish weir net. Seine net. Fish spears. Fish weirs—pa kiokio, pa tute, pa tuakirua, Arani pa. Hook and line. Fish traps—anga and hinahi. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter IX.—Fowling, Games, and Recreations | 317-348 |
| Fowling, fowl trap. Toys of cocoanut leaves—Jews' harp, hoop, windmill, spinner, bullroarer, canoe. Cocoanut shell—shoes, casting lots. Skipping, swings, toboggans, tip-cat, jack stones. Tops, stilts, string figures, kites. Darts and throwing discs. Comparisons. | |
| Chapter X.—Miscellaneous | 349-372 |
| Weapons—long, short, projectile. Agricultural implements. Musical instruments — flutes, trumpets, wooden gongs, drums. Personal adornment—ornaments for the head, hair, ear, neck, breast. Tattooing—implements. designs. Decorative art—plaiting, tattooing, carving, painting. Comparisons. | |
| List of Books and Papers referred to in the Text | 373-374 |
| Index | 375-384 |