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The Old-Time Maori

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  • 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