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