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The Maori - Volume II

Index

page 597

Index.

  • Abortion—How procured 5
  • Absolution in ritual performances 45, 47
  • Adzes, Stone 200
  • Adzes, Stone, use of 578
  • Agriculture 216, 353
  • Agriculture. (See Fasting. Harvest. Human Sacrifice. Irrigation. Implements. Kumara. Mara. Pests. Rongo.)
  • Agriculture and moon 181, 208
  • Agricultural implements 358
  • Agriculturists, Labours of 373, 374
  • Ahao, a form of spear 244
  • Ahi mate, the cold hearth stone 75
  • Ahi matiti, or bird preserving 489
  • Ahi parapara ceremonial 442, 555
  • Ahi rara tuna—How eels were preserved 442
  • Ahi titi—How mutton birds were taken 487
  • Ahi torongu—Pests destroyed by magic 388
  • Ahi tupopoto—A “self-burning” stove 7
  • Aho ponapona—Quipu mnemonics 201
  • Ahua—Semblance of an entity or quality 40, 69, 227
  • Ahua. (See Mawe).
  • Ahuriri—A funnel net 409
  • Aitua—Unlucky acts, misfortune, omens 29, 33, 229, 283
  • Aitua. (See Omens.)
  • Aitua—Personified form of misfortune 29, 33
  • Ambuscades in warfare 237
  • Amulets 48
  • Ancestral spirits, Reliance on 25
  • Animatism, Effect of belief in 452
  • Anklets 535
  • “Aotearoa” lifts the sea roads 591
  • Ara matua, or ecliptic 209, 210
  • Ara pawhati—How forest trails were marked 474
  • Arawa folk at Rua-tahuna 233
  • Arawaru, Te—Origin of shellfish (see Kaumaihi) 417
  • Arei pa, Taranaki 350
  • Arero whero—Fighting men 232
  • Arero whero. (See Ati a toa, Ika a Whiro.)
  • Aristocratic tendency in Maori 1, 31
  • Armoury 284
  • Art of agriculture 353
  • Arts of pleasure 77page 598
  • Art of war 224
  • Ashes used as fertiliser 373, 379
  • Aspersion in rites 14, 40
  • Aspersion. (See Immersion.)
  • Astrologists 206
  • Astrologists. (See Stars. Voyagers.)
  • Astronomical lore 205
  • Astronomy and astrology (see Tatai arorangi) 206
  • Astronomy, Myths, etc. based on 209
  • Atahu. (See Love charms.)
  • Atamira, or bier 54
  • Ati a toa—Young warriors 232
  • Ati a toa. (See Arero whero. Ika a Whiro.)
  • Atiawa versus Warahoe fights 225
  • Atua as guardian of village community 342
  • Atua cause sickness 32, 34
  • Atua, how foiled 35
  • Atua kahu—Caco-dæmons 5, 34, 49
  • Atua. (See Gods. Io. Kaiuaua. Puhi-kainaonao.)
  • Auika, or fish stringer 421
  • Aurora Australis, mythical origin of 217
  • Aute, or paper mulberry 396
  • Aute as ear ornament 540
  • Aute bark—A clothing material 505
  • Aute, Introduction of 354, 355
  • Awatoto pa, Desperate attack on 339
  • Bait containers 417, 437
  • Balista employed in tree felling 197, 198
  • Ball game 110
  • Baptismal party welcomed at village 17
  • Baptismal rites 7, 13, 18, 21, 22
  • Baptismal rites. (See Tohi. Tua.)
  • Baptismal ritual feast 18
  • Bark fabric 505, 506, 518
  • Bark fabric made in New Zealand 506, 518
  • Barracouta—How caught 425
  • Barracouta, Species of 425
  • Baskets 525
  • Baskets, Fish 421, 441, 447
  • Bat as an article of food 482
  • Bed clothing, Lack of 511
  • Bellbird—How taken 486
  • Belts 520
  • Belts tattooed round waist 552
  • Binary system of numeration 177, 178
  • Bird preserving 489
  • Bird released in rites 16, 343, 379page 599
  • Bird sacrifice for new house 559
  • Bird snares—How made and set 459
  • Bird snarer's charms 462
  • Bird snaring 457, 459
  • Bird-snaring restrictions 454, 466, 467
  • Bird-snaring trees 460, 461, 462
  • Bird-snaring troughs. (See Waka kereru.)
  • Bird spears 464
  • Bird spears—How used 464
  • Bird traps. (See Hawk. Korapa. Puaka.)
  • Birds as ear pendants 537
  • Birds, Decoy 469
  • Birds—First taken employed as offering to gods 459
  • Birds, Flock names of 467
  • Birds formerly very numerous 456
  • Birds—How counted 177, 178, 477, 478
  • Birds—How retained in forest 457, 466
  • Birds—How taken 457 on
  • Birds of forest fly seaward 466
  • Birds of other lands 455
  • Birds, Origin of 455
  • Birds, Sayings concerning 457, 468, 477, 478
  • Birds snared at water 461
  • Birds taken on frosty nights 474
  • Birds. Talking 478
  • Birds, Tapu 455
  • Birds. (See Bat. Bell bird. Blight bird. Crow. Cuckoo. Ducks. Hawk. Huia. Hurumanu. Kaka. Kakapo. Kiwi. Manu-teko. Mutton birds. Owl. Parauri. Parakeet. Pigeon. Punaweko. Quail. Robin. Tane. Tui. Woodhen. Mara o Tane. Tiepa. Wai tuhi. Waka kereru. Whenua pua.)
  • Birth accelerated by playing flute 25
  • Birth, Curious restrictions concerning 8
  • Birth customs 1
  • Birth giving no serious ordeal 2
  • Birth registration, Primitive 16
  • Birth, Ritual connected with 1
  • Birth, Tutelary beings connected with 2
  • Birth. (See Nest house. Rua kai. Stillborn. Tuku.)
  • Bleaching fibre—How effected 516
  • Blight bird—How taken 481
  • Blood vengeance 226
  • Boat, Development of ribbed 222
  • Bone—How worked 278
  • Bone pendants 540
  • Bones of dead used as fertilising and protective agents 387
  • Bones of dead—How recovered. (See Exhumation.)
  • Bones of dead preserved in elevated boxes 587page 600
  • Bones of enemies fashioned into implements 226
  • Boundary marks 376
  • Bow found in swamp 280
  • Bow and arrow 200, 279
  • Bow and arrow, Maori tradition of 281
  • Bowls, Stone 129
  • Bowls, Stone, of Polynesia 131
  • Boxes, Carved 545
  • Boxing 82
  • Boys dedicated to war god 227
  • Boys encouraged in sham fights 81
  • Bracelets 535
  • Branchlets used in rites 13, 14, 40
  • Breadfruit—Name of preserved by Maori 354
  • Breath-holding competitions 127
  • Bullroarer 163
  • Bullroarer as a ceremonial instrument 163
  • Burial caves 62, 65, 67, 73
  • Burial grounds 62
  • Burial, House 65
  • Burial, Sandhill 64
  • Burial, Sea 67
  • Burial, Secret 65
  • Burial, Sitting 67
  • Burial stage or platform 63
  • Burial, Swamp 64
  • Burial, Tree 63
  • Burial, Trussed 54
  • Burial. (See Coffins. Exhumation.)
  • Bush clearings—How made 375
  • Caco-dæmons 5
  • Caco-dæmons cause stomach disorders 34
  • Calabash vessels adorned 490
  • Call leaf for birds—How used 487
  • Cannibalism (see Kai pirau) 338, 555
  • Canoe built to avenge defeat 233
  • Canoe cenotaphs 62
  • Canoe coffins 63
  • Canoe docks 347
  • Canoe making 221
  • Canoe races 91
  • Canoe songs 146
  • Canoes—Rim-lashing device 221, 222
  • Canoes, Two-masted 222
  • Canopus, Names of 212
  • Caras blancas of Polynesia 506
  • Carved designs of superior houses 571, 574, 575page 601
  • Carvings concealed in swamps, etc. 573
  • Carvings. (See Whakairo. Wood carving. Manaia. Pakake. Marakihau. Wheku.
  • Cats cradle 99
  • Cave dwellings 578
  • Cave stores 590
  • Caves. (See Burial caves.)
  • Caviare. (See Kaniwha.)
  • Celestial phenomena 216, 217
  • Cenotaphs (see Mortuary memorials) 61, 62
  • Ceremonial pertaining to weaving 513
  • Ceremonial planting of crops 380
  • Challenging 292
  • Chaplets, mourning (see Fillets) 74
  • Charm, Divinatory 41
  • Charm repeated over dart 94, 95
  • Charm to facilitate birth 5
  • Charm to impede flight of enemy 298
  • Charms of bird snarers 462
  • Charms repeated over weapons. (See Hoa rakau.)
  • Charms to render persons swift-footed 298
  • Charms. (See Hoa. Hono. Titikura. Whai. Karakia.)
  • Chatham Isles invaded by Maori buccaneers 225
  • Childless women nursed dolls 4
  • Children 79
  • Children accompanied raiding forces 338
  • Children encouraged to play games 80
  • Children—How taught 66
  • Children of Light 30
  • Children of the Mist 2
  • Children ran naked 35, 511
  • Children sold for and as food 338
  • Children. (See Boys. Infants.)
  • Circumvallation of fortified places 337
  • Clappers 169
  • Cliff forts 312, 347
  • Climbing. (See under Tree.)
  • Cloaks, etc., used as armour 229, 284
  • Cloak pins 508
  • Clothing, Maori 38, 503
  • Clothing of Maori when fighting 229
  • Clothing materials 514, 518
  • Clothing materials, Change of 505
  • Clothing materials. (See Aute. Bark. Fibres. Garments.)
  • Cloud Children 217, 452
  • Cloud Maid, The 388
  • Clouds personified 217
  • Coconut brought to New Zealand 354page 602
  • Coconut—Name of preserved by Maori 128
  • Coffins 63, 65
  • Colour names 218, 219, 220, 221
  • Colour sense of Maori 218
  • Combs, Head (see Tuku heru) 75, 533
  • Comets 216
  • Compass points, Maori 210, 211
  • Compass points have wind names 210, 212
  • Conception—How produced 3, 5
  • Conception prevented by magic 4
  • Conception produced by magic 3
  • Conception produces congratulations 2
  • Conception, Signs of 5
  • Conditions of life in pre-European days 305
  • Congenital stigmata 21
  • Constellations (see Stars) 209
  • Cooked food defiles tapu 454, 466
  • Cooking 442, 444
  • Cooking sheds 578
  • Cooking shellfish by tuwhatu method 417
  • Coquille, Voyage of 37
  • Cordage 531
  • Cordyline as a food product 394
  • Cordyline—How cooked 394
  • Cordyline, Introduction of 394
  • Cordyline terminalis probably introduced 394
  • Coromandel (ship) to New Zealand in 1820 38
  • Counting, Curious usages concerning 178, 477
  • Counting, Fingers and toes used in 177
  • Counting in fours 178
  • Counting. (See Binary. Numeration.)
  • Couvade—No trace of in New Zealand 23
  • Cradles, Two forms of 23
  • Crayfish—How taken 415
  • Crayfish, Mythical origin of 417
  • Cremation 61, 67
  • Crescent symbol of moon god of agriculture 361
  • Crops, Harvesting of 389
  • Crops—How estimated 389
  • Crops never irrigated 392
  • Crops—Pests of pre-European days 388
  • Crops planted at certain phases of moon 375392
  • Crops, Storage of 390
  • Crops, Weeding of 387
  • Crops, (See Gourd. Kumara. Yam.)
  • Cross as a tattooed design 547
  • Crow (bird) 486
  • Crozet's attack on a fortified village 345page 603
  • Crying as a pastime 79
  • Cuckoo 486
  • Cultivation grounds, Description of 376, 377
  • Cures—Some singular usages 49, 50
  • Curious usages 49, 50, 178, 232, 233, 477, 500, 501
  • Daggers 241
  • Dance of the Mareikura 300
  • Dancing. 107
  • Dancing. (See Haka. Posture dances. Maimai. Turanga.)
  • Dart throwing 81, 93
  • Darts, Magic 95
  • Dawn Maid 10, 388
  • Dawn of science 171
  • Dead, Gifts made to. (See Kopaki.)
  • Dead, Objects placed with 66, 67
  • Death customs 29
  • Death enters the world 29
  • Death—How the Maori meets it 56
  • Death in open preferred 53
  • Death journey food 53
  • Death—Lying in state 54
  • Death. (See Burial. Coffins. Mortuary. Graves. Gunfire. Kopaki. Lying in state. Skulls. Suicide. Tombs.)
  • Decline of vitality and stamina, Cause of 38
  • Decoration, Personal 532
  • Decoration, Personal. (See Ornaments.)
  • Decorative art curvilinear 571
  • Decorative work in houses 567571
  • Decorative work. (See Carvings. Paint. Sennit. Taniko. Tattooing. Houses.)
  • Decoy birds 469
  • Defeat, Peculiar modes of avenging 232, 233
  • Delirium 45, 50
  • Desirable qualities protected by magic 227
  • Desperate attack on Awatoto pa 339
  • Devils, Casting out of 6, 40, 43
  • Diagnostic rite 40, 41
  • Digging, Boustrophedon method of 381, 383
  • Digging soil for crops a mere loosening process 366
  • Dirges 144
  • Diseases 35, 44, 49
  • Diseases. (See Goitre. Headache. Leprosy. Sick. Sickness. Maiki. Toothache. Worms.)
  • Divination 15, 40, 41, 42, 119, 128, 144, 290
  • Divinatory dances 290
  • Divinatory kite flying 119
  • Divinatory rites 40, 41, 42page 604
  • Divorce 11
  • Doctors distrusted 39
  • Dog introduced into New Zealand by Maori 354
  • Dog rattles 483, 485
  • Dog skin garments 519
  • Dog teeth as pendants 537
  • Doors of native houses 570
  • Draughts—The mu torere game 111
  • Draughts, Hawaiian form of 111
  • Drill, Cord or thong 172, 197
  • Drill, Pump, unknown to Maori 197
  • Drilling stone, Native method of 197
  • Drum of Polynesia (see Gongs) 166, 169
  • Ducks—How taken 481
  • Ducks—How they were not taken 273
  • Dyeing processes (see Mordant) 516
  • Dying persons 51, 52
  • Dying persons farewelled by friends 52, 58
  • Dying person's farewell to friends 52
  • Ear pendants 535
  • Ear piercing a ceremonial act 555
  • Earth mother clothed with vegetation 452
  • Earth mother, Period of labour of 5
  • Earthworms as a food supply 53
  • Ecliptic. (See Ara matua.)
  • Eel bait 437, 439, 441
  • Eel bobbing 441
  • Eel fry 437, 440
  • Eel fry—How taken 440
  • Eel pots 430, 437
  • Eel pots—How set 432
  • Eel pots made of Phormium leaves 439
  • Eel spears 440
  • Eel weirs 431
  • Eels, Blue-eyed 437
  • Eels—How cooked 442, 444
  • Eels—How counted 178
  • Eels—How preserved 442
  • Eels—How taken 428, 430, 440
  • Eels liberated in Miramar lagoon 442
  • Eels, Migration of 437, 440
  • Eels move overland 442
  • Eels not found in high-lying lakes 430
  • Eels of large size 430
  • Eels, Origin of 398, 442
  • Eels taken at certain phases of moon 182
  • Eels. (See Hinaki.)page 605
  • Enemy—How saved during fighting 299
  • Enemy sells fascines to British Army 350
  • Epidemics. 37, 50
  • Epidemics. (See under Upoko.)
  • European garments—How worn 522
  • European vessels to New Zealand, Early 37, 38
  • Exhumation 70
  • Exhumation, Gifts made at 72
  • Exhumation—Final disposal of bones of dead 63, 64
  • Exorcism of evil spirits 6, 40, 43
  • Face painting 543, 545
  • Fasting workers plant crops 376
  • Fatalism a Maori characteristic 30, 31
  • Feasts, Ceremonial 18, 22, 302, etc.
  • Feasts, Funeral 69, 72, 75
  • Feasts, Funeral. (See Festivals. Hakari.)
  • Feather garments 517, 519
  • Feather ornaments 534, 535, 543
  • Feather tippet 543
  • Feathers concealed by fowlers 466
  • Feathers. (See Plumes.)
  • Female element, Powers of 228
  • Female infant dedicated to Hine-te-iwaiwa 27
  • Fences and breakwinds 358
  • Fences against birds 357
  • Fern roots as staple food product 355
  • Festivals (see Feasts) 79
  • Feuds, Intertribal 225, 232
  • Fibres—How bleached 516
  • Fibres—How dyed 516
  • Fibres. (See Weaving. Mordant.)
  • Fighter watches big toe of opponent 281
  • Fighting methods 237, 238, 296
  • Fighting stages of New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and New Guinea 333
  • Fighting stages, Projecting 333
  • Fijian pa 333, 351
  • Fillets, Mourning 59
  • Fire making 202
  • Fire-making materials 204
  • Fire. (See Ahi.)
  • Fires, Ceremonial (see under Ahi) 297, 388, 555
  • Firearms caused change in defensive works 348
  • Firearms inspired fear 285, 286
  • Firearms, Introduction and effect of 284, 285
  • Firearms, Names for 285, 286
  • Firearms. (See Muskets. Gunfire.)
  • First fruits 389page 606
  • First fruits offerings 372
  • Fish baskets 421, 441, 447
  • Fish first caught liberated 406
  • Fish hooks 414, 419, 425
  • Fish hooks, Bone—How made 428
  • Fish hooks—European forms not appreciated 428
  • Fish hooks fashioned from human bone 426
  • Fish hooks, Feather lures of 428
  • Fish hooks, Wooden—How procured 426
  • Fish, Mauri of 400
  • Fish, Mythical origin of 398
  • Fish, Personified form of 398
  • Fish spears 428, 440
  • Fish traps 437, 447, 449, 450
  • Fish traps, Diminutive 438
  • Fish traps, Manufacture of 437
  • Fish traps of marvellously neat manufacture 438, 439
  • Fish traps—The Koumu 441
  • Fish. (See Barracouta. Crayfish. Eels. Flounders. Hinaki. Inanga. Kahawai. Kokopu. Lamprey. Panoko. Hinaki. Shellfish. Shrimps. Tikihemi. Upokororo. Kawau. Puna i Rangiriri. Tinirau.
  • Fishers employed charms 417
  • Fishers made offerings to gods 423, 442
  • Fishing 397
  • Fishing a tapu pursuit 399
  • Fishing a universal pursuit 397
  • Fishing bait 414
  • Fishing canoes fitted with fish creels 419
  • Fishing controlled by moon 182
  • Fishing, Fresh water 430
  • Fishing grounds area marked by stakes 401
  • Fishing grounds located by lining objects on land 401, 402
  • Fishing grounds named 402
  • Fishing, Line 419, 421
  • Fishing lines 419, 421
  • Fishing lines, Ceremonial wetting of new 423
  • Fishing lines, Outriggers for 423
  • Fishing nets. (See under Nets.)
  • Fishing nets, Origin of 412
  • Fishing rods 441
  • Fishing, Trolling 414
  • Fishing. (See Reti.)
  • Flax eel pot 439
  • Flax trumpets 160
  • Floor mats 525
  • Flounders, Species of 450
  • Flutes 152page 607
  • Flutes, Ceremonial, of New Guinea 26
  • Flutes, Ceremonial, of New Zealand 25, 26
  • Flutes fashioned from human bone 25, 26
  • Flutes, Ivory 155
  • Flutes, Nose 153, 155
  • Flutes, Phallic 25
  • Flutes played over sick child 26
  • Flutes—Use of in parturition 25
  • Folk lore 2, 412, 452, 454
  • Food cooked separately for different castes 22
  • Food of raiding party 231
  • Food plants distributed by Pacific voyagers 354, 355
  • Food plants introduced into New Zealand 354, 355, 396
  • Food supplies and stars 206
  • Foot races 83
  • Forest life—Effect of on Maori 451
  • Forest lore 451
  • Forest mauri or talisman 456
  • Forest, Mythical denizens of 452, 454
  • Forest originally universal 454
  • Forest, Origin of 452
  • Forest as a refuge 306
  • Forest, Maori attitude toward 452
  • Forest rangers not intimidated 333
  • Forest, Tapu of 454
  • Fortified villages 304
  • Fowlers, Ceremonial return of 490
  • Fowlers'charms 462
  • Fuel 578
  • Gait of native women 556
  • Galaxias, Species of 450
  • Gambling unknown 80
  • Game-taking rights 458
  • Games 77
  • Games, Classification of 78
  • Garments 503
  • Garments. (See Clothing. Weaving. Maro.)
  • Garments, Dog skin 519
  • Garments, Feather 517, 519
  • Garments—How adorned 516, 517, 518
  • Garments—How European garments were worn 522
  • Garments—How fastened 508
  • Garments—How worn 508
  • Genealogical staves 201
  • Ghosts 50
  • Ghouls devour dead 55, 70
  • Gifts to newly born infants 17page 608
  • Girls, Training of 302
  • Gods appealed to in sickness 43, 45, 47
  • Gods of agriculture 386
  • Gods, Offerings to in war 296, 297
  • Gods. (See Atua. Hine-korako. Io. Kahukura. Kiwa. Maru. Pani. Rongomai. Ruamano. Tane. Tiki. Tunui. War Gods.)
  • Goitre 49
  • Gongs 166
  • Gongs, Tree 167
  • Gourd, Curious mode of planting 393
  • Gourd, Mythical origin of 392
  • Gourd, Uses of 392, 393
  • Gourd wind instrument 160
  • Gravel and sand employed in agriculture 374, 379
  • Graves 64
  • Graves. (See Burial. Exhumation.)
  • Greenstone pendants 537
  • Grinding stones 201
  • Growth of vegetation personified 387, 388
  • Gunfire over dying 52
  • Hair cutting 532, 533
  • Hair cutting a ceremonial act 58, 69, 288, 533
  • Hair dressing 533
  • Hair employed in rites 297
  • Hair worn long by men 532
  • Hair worn short by women 532
  • Haka102, 105
  • Haka of Pakaurangi 85
  • Haka, Origin of 107
  • Haka poi 110
  • Hakari 389
  • Hakari. (See Feasts. Festivals.)
  • Hakuturi, or forest elves 454
  • Hapi tawa, a pastime 132
  • Hara, or desecration of tapu 40
  • Hara. (See Tapu. Hauhauaitu.)
  • Harvest feast 389
  • Hauhauaitu and hinapo—Effects of hara 227
  • Hawaiki-nui, meeting place of four-way spirit path 53
  • Hawk traps 486
  • Headache—How cured 51
  • Heads—How preserved 61
  • Heads of enemies placed on stockades 333
  • Heavenly bodies 205
  • Heavenly bodies. (See Moon. Stars. Sun.)
  • Hei matau, a pendant 537, 539page 609
  • Heipipi pa at Petane 307
  • Hell as invented by Rev. Yate 44
  • Herbal remedies modern 51
  • Heru tu rae—Head combs 75, 533
  • Hewn designs on house timbers 578
  • Hihi outruns a falling tree 295
  • Hikawai—A game 99
  • Hikumutu,—The winter solstice 208
  • Hikurangi mountain of homeland 70
  • Hill forts (see Pa) 307, 311
  • Hill forts, Terraced 307, 321, etc.
  • Hill forts, Types of 311
  • Hills married to cement peace 300
  • Hina, the Moon Maid 181
  • Hina and Tinirau 398
  • Hinakeha and Hinauri 208
  • Hinaki (eel pots)—How set in lagoons 439
  • Hinaki pitau—Whitebait traps 437
  • Hinaki tarino 439
  • Hinaki waharua 439
  • Hinaki. (See eel pots.)
  • Hina-te-iwaiwa, the Moon Maid 2, 4, 5
  • Hinauri and Hinakeha personify lunar phases 181
  • Hine-kauorohia 18
  • Hine-kapua, the Cloud Maid 217
  • Hine-korako 2, 45
  • Hine-nui-te-Po and death 29
  • Hine-nui-te-Po and Maui 29
  • Hine-pukohu-rangi, the Mist Maid 2
  • Hine-raumati, the Summer Maid 180
  • Hine-rau-wharangi—A personification 387, 454
  • Hine-te-iwaiwa 2
  • Hine-te-iwaiwa and art of weaving 514
  • Hine-te-iwaiwa, Female infants dedicated to 27
  • Hine-titama, the Dawn Maid 10
  • Hine-takurua, the Winter Maid 180
  • Hine-whaitiri, the Thunder Maid 15
  • Hippocampus as an ear pendant 540
  • Hirihiri charm—A diagnostic rite 40
  • Hoa rakau charm 242
  • Hoa tapuwae charm 298
  • Hoeroa—A peculiar bone weapon 276
  • Hoeroa as a missile weapon 278
  • Hoeroa curved by steaming 279
  • Hono charm—A healing rite 48
  • Hooks, Albatross 430
  • Hooks, Fish. (See Fish hooks.)
  • Hoop—A toy 126page 610
  • Hoop nets 405, 407, 412
  • Hopara makaurangi—Painted designs 546, 559
  • Hotete—A caterpillar pest—How destroyed 388
  • House building 195, 561, 562
  • House building a tapu task 561
  • House building, Origin of 558
  • House—Carved figures in, named after ancestors 574
  • House, Ceremonial opening of 587
  • House, Human sacrifice for new 559, 576
  • House of mourning 58
  • House site—How squared 191
  • House, Tapu lifted from new 342
  • Houses 558
  • Houses, Carved work in 571
  • Houses, Decorative panels of 567
  • Houses, Doors of 570
  • Houses, Interior aspect of 570
  • Houses named 578
  • Houses, No furniture in 570
  • Houses not repaired 561
  • Houses of arts 505, 511
  • Houses—Ordinary dwelling huts 577
  • Houses, Reedwork in 567, 569
  • Houses, Roof pitch of 576
  • Houses, Smoke vent in roof of 576
  • Houses, Superior 561, 562, 563
  • Houses, Thatching of 567, 569
  • Houses, Two types of 559
  • Houses, Windows of 570
  • Houses. (See under Carvings. Huts. Tane. Human sacrifice. Kauta. Rangitapu. Sennit. Storehouses. Tree dwellings. Whare. Whata.)
  • Huaki-pouri—Abode of primal beings 10
  • Huamata, or first fruits 372
  • Huata spear (see Spears) 240
  • Huia plumes 534
  • Huia—How taken 481
  • Hui-te-ananui—House of Hine-titama 10
  • Hui-te-rangiora 10
  • Human bones as a fertiliser 386
  • Human sacrifice 555
  • Human sacrifice as a mourning rite 60
  • Human sacrifice for infant 22
  • Human sacrifice for new house 576
  • Human sacrifiec in agriculture 386, 387
  • Human sacrifice, Substitute for 21
  • Human sacrifice—Survival of in agriculture 386
  • Human teeth as pendants 537page 611
  • Hura-waikato and carving 559
  • Hurumanu represents sea birds 455
  • Huts, Circular 578
  • Huts, ordinary dwelling (see Houses) 577
  • Ihaia Hutana discourses on child welfare 24
  • Iho tamariki (umbilical cord) utilised in rite 19
  • Iho tamariki, Cutting of 12
  • Iho tamariki, Disposal of 11, 17
  • Ihorangi Te 398
  • Ika a Whiro, or tried warriors (see Arero whero) 232
  • Ika koangaumu—Human sacrifice 60
  • Ikaroa Te—The Milky Way 209
  • Illegitimacy 22
  • Illness, Cause of 32, 34
  • Images, Double 12
  • Images, Three fingered 574
  • Image represents dead person 60
  • Immersion in rites 14, 50, 69, 74
  • Immersion in sickness 50
  • Immersion. (See Aspersion. Baptismal rites.)
  • Implements, Agricultural 358
  • Implements fashioned from bones of enemies 226
  • Implements of Maori primitive 202
  • Implements—The matarau earth lifter 330
  • Implements used in taking shellfish 417
  • Implements. (See under Agriculture. Birds. Fish. Weapons, etc.
  • Inanga—How taken 449
  • Inanga, Migrations of 449
  • Infanticide 26
  • Infant, Baptismal ceremony over 13, 14
  • Infant dedicated to Supreme Being 15, 18, 19
  • Infant endowed with mental vigour, etc. 25, 27
  • Infant, Massage of 24
  • Infant, Naming of 22
  • Infant, Nanu of 24
  • Infant, Nose of flattened 24
  • Infant welcomed into world 10, 17
  • Infants, Care of 23, 24
  • Infants, Charms recited over 27
  • Infants, Weaning of 22
  • Infants. (See Boys. Children. Cradles. Io. Koroingo. Massage. Nanu. Whakawaiu.)
  • Ingoa whakarare, or tapu name22
  • Insanity 50
  • Intercalation in lunar month 182
  • Intoning, Maori love of 136page 612
  • Io, the Supreme Being 47
  • Io, Infants dedicated to 15, 18, 19
  • Io invoked 3, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19
  • Io-mataaho 25
  • Io-matua 45
  • Io, Names of 18, 25
  • Io-te-wananga 25
  • Ira atua 30
  • Iri and atahu 146
  • Irrigation not practised 392
  • Island forts and refuges (see Pa) 318, 347
  • Jackstones, Game of 92
  • Jews harp, a pre-European form 170
  • Juan Fernandez—Did he reach New Zealand? 506
  • Jumping 83
  • Jumping jack—A toy 129
  • Kaharoa net (see Nets) 404
  • Kahawai—How taken 414
  • Kaheru—Native spade 359, 368
  • Kahui-anu, Te 30
  • Kahukura and the fairies 412
  • Kahukura—Personified form of rainbow 43, 45
  • Kai pirau—A ghoulish practice 55, 70
  • Kairamua—A form of hara 34
  • Kaiuaua—A malignant demon 34
  • Kai ure rite 43
  • Kaka parrot—How taken 466, 467, 468
  • Kakapo formerly numerous 483
  • Kakapo, Habits of 483, 484
  • Kakauroa, or long-handled tomahawk—How used 253, 257
  • Kaniwha, or caviare 425
  • Kao kumara—Dried sweet potatoes 374
  • Kapu—A scoop for taking mussels 419
  • Karaka poison (see Poisons) 51
  • Karakia at opening of new pa 341
  • Karakia tohi. (See Baptismal ritual.)
  • Karakia. (See Charms.)
  • Karam and Karamu trees 384
  • Karetao—A toy 129
  • Karewa pa, Attack on 340
  • Katipo spider, Bite of 50
  • Kaumaihi—Origin of shellfish (see Arawaru) 417
  • Kaupeka, or months (see Months) 184, 185, 209
  • Kauri—A stone weapon 261
  • Kauta—Cooking sheds 578
  • Kawa taua ceremony 289page 613
  • Kawatini—Tohunga 45
  • Kawa whare ceremony 342, 587
  • Kawau māro—A phase of the war dance 238, 239
  • Kawau-moe-roa—Fish traps. etc. 409
  • Kekeparaoa pa at Waikohu 70
  • Ketu—An agricultural implement 359
  • Kikokiko, or ghosts 50
  • Kings—How elected 125
  • Kiri mate—Relatives of dead 58, 59
  • Kite flying 115
  • Kiwa appealed to in sickness 47
  • Kiwi caught by means of dogs 485
  • Knowledge of stars (see Stars) 206
  • Ko—A digging stick 359, 379
  • Ko, Ceremonial form of 380
  • Ko decorated for ceremonial planting 366
  • Ko—How used 366
  • Koauau flute (see Flutes) 153
  • Koauau flute, Curious use of 25
  • Kokiri, or water jump 88
  • Kokopu fish—How taken 447
  • Kokopu. (See Galaxias.)
  • Kokowai, or red ochre 543
  • Kopaki—Mortuary offerings 54, 70, 74
  • Korapa bird trap 481, 482
  • Koraria starts a war 225
  • Korepa—A form of slung shot 270
  • Korohuhu, or “whizzer’ 164
  • Koroingo rite over infant 17
  • Korowhitiwhiti, or cradle (see Cradles) 23
  • Koruru—A game 92
  • Kotiate—A bone weapon 265
  • Koumu—A form of fish trap 441, 449
  • Koururu—Personified form of owl 559
  • Ku—A primitive string instrument 170
  • Kumara (sweet potato), Cultivation of 369, 373
  • Kumara, flowering varieties of 371
  • Kumara “gods,” so called 386
  • Kumara, Harvesting of 388
  • Kumara introduced into New Zealand 371
  • Kumara, Mythical origin of 370
  • Kumara pests 388
  • Kumara planted in quincunx order 374, 383
  • Kumara, planting of 374, 375, 376
  • Kumara planting a ceremonial task 380
  • Kumara planting—How mounds were aligned 378, 379, 381, 382, 383
  • Kumara—Southern limit of cultivation 355
  • Kumara taken to Chatham Isles 354page 614
  • Kumara. (See Pani. Rongo. Crops. Kao.)
  • Kurawaka 11
  • Kurawha the Amazon 82
  • Kura-winiwini—A pastime 133
  • Laceration in mourning 55
  • Ladders 195, 488
  • Laments (see Songs) 60, 146
  • Lamprey—How taken 444, 445
  • Lamprey, Migrations of 444
  • Lamprey pots 438
  • Lamprey weirs 444, 446
  • Latrines 335, 590
  • Latrines, Singular rite performed at 43
  • Laughter that desolated many lands 225
  • Left foot employed in ceremonies 48
  • Left hand employed in ceremonies 47, 342, 423
  • Left thigh, Objects passed under ceremonially 42, 423
  • Leprosy introduced from abroad 49
  • Life principle 7
  • Life principle in all things 30
  • Life principle. (See Mauri.)
  • Litters 67
  • Lizard and Whiro 35
  • Lizard as guardian of tapu 65
  • Lizard in carved work 573
  • Lobster pot 415
  • Log rolling—How effected 192
  • Log splitting 193
  • Love charms 146
  • Lunar months 180, 184, 185
  • Lunar months. (See Intercalation. Kaupeka. Months.)
  • Lunar personifications 2, 4
  • Lunar personifications. (See Hina. Hine-te-iwaiwa. Hine-korako. Rongo.)
  • Lying in state 54
  • Magellan Clouds 212, 214
  • Magic 41, 43, 49, 106, 119
  • Magic affects mental qualities 297
  • Magic darts 95
  • Magic employed in war 232
  • Magic rite to destroy crop pests 388
  • Magic, White 3, 4, 15
  • Magic, White man's 44
  • Mahuru sends the Cuckoo 375
  • Maiki brethren 29, 30, 33, 43
  • Maimai, a form of posture dance 107page 615
  • Maioha ceremony 10, 17
  • Makamaka—A form of bird snare 476, 477
  • Makamaka kai—Ceremonial serving at feast 302
  • Ma-kokoti pa, Siege of 338
  • Makutu. (See Magic.)
  • Mana43, 47, 342
  • Mana, Origin of 16
  • Manaia design in carved work 574
  • Manatunga 106
  • Manea of left foot 48
  • Manga—A rake dredge 419
  • Mangere, pa, Attack on 339
  • Mangoroa, Te 214
  • Mangoroa, Te. (See Milky Way. Ikaroa.)
  • Manu-korihi pa, Waitara 310, 311
  • Manu teko—A mythical bird 455
  • Maori as a fighter 236, 237
  • Marakihau figures in carved work 575
  • Māra o Tane 456
  • Māra tautane 372
  • Mareikura, Dance of the 300
  • Marere-o-tonga personifies pleasure 78
  • Maripi, or shark-tooth cutter 270
  • Mariunga—A medium 41
  • Maro kopua—A form of apron 511
  • Marooned woman, Story of 120
  • Maroro kokoti ihu waka 226
  • Marriage of mountains to cement peacemaking 300
  • Marriage to cement peacemaking 300
  • Maru—A personification and atua 43, 45
  • Maruaroa season 186
  • Massage by trampling 44
  • Massage of infants 24
  • Mātāika, first man slain in fight 296
  • Mataitaua pa at Paua-tahanui 349
  • Matakite. (See Divination. Divinatory. Mata taua.)
  • Matarau, a peculiar implement 330
  • Mata taua, expert and seer 238
  • Matau tangata, or “man hook” 283
  • Mate aitu 32
  • Mate a marama, or moonlike death 208
  • Mate atua 32
  • Mate maoxi 32
  • Mate marama 2
  • Mate tara whare 32
  • Matimati—A game 97, 98
  • Mats, Floor 525, 570
  • Maui and Hine-nui-te-Po 29page 616
  • Maui and Mokoroa 213
  • Maui strives for death as moon dies 29
  • Maunga, Te, and Mist Maid 2
  • Mauri of a village 342
  • Mauri of crops 376, 384
  • Mauri of eel weir 432
  • Mauri of fish 400
  • Mauri of forest 456
  • Mauri of kumara 379
  • Mauri of lamprey weir 447
  • Mauri of whales at Te Mahia 400
  • Mauri ora 38
  • Mauri. (See Life principle.)
  • Māwe of a battle ground 297
  • Mawe pa at Lake Omapere 347
  • Mawhai pa defended by women 338
  • Measurement based on human body 189
  • Measurement, system of 188
  • Measurement—The peculiar takoto method 191
  • Measurement, Units of 189
  • Measuring girth of tree 190
  • Measuring rod 191
  • Mechanical appliances 192
  • Medical science unknown 202
  • Medical science—Why unknown 32
  • Medicines appreciated by Maori 33
  • Medicines unknown in pre-European days 6
  • Melancholia, Maori subject to 30, 31, 32
  • Men most given to personal adornment 532
  • Menstruation 2
  • Mental discipline lacking in Maori 32
  • Mental qualities affected by magic 297
  • Mere—A highly-prized weapon 254
  • Meremere—A weapon 267
  • Meteors 216
  • Middens 335
  • Military exercises 81
  • Military exercises. (See School of Arms.)
  • Milky Way as a denoter of time 213
  • Milky Way, Names of 212, 213
  • Milky Way protects the Star Children 209
  • Milky Way. (See Ikaroa. Mangoroa. Mokoroa.)
  • Mimiro device to clamp home house frame 565
  • Miri aroha rite 139
  • Miro and karure rolled twine 516
  • Missile weapons. (See under Weapons.)
  • Mist Maid mates with Mountain 2
  • Miti—A stone weapon 261page 617
  • Mnemonic aids to memory 201
  • Moa, Tradition of 48
  • Moa bones furnish implements 44
  • Moana-nui treated by tohunga 89
  • Moari swing 89
  • Moari swing utilised in attack on pa 339
  • Moko-hikuwaru and lizards 35
  • Moko papa and moko kuri styles of tattooing 552
  • Mokoroa-i-ata, the Milky Way 212, 213
  • Months of Maori year 184, 185
  • Months. (See Lunar months. Intercalation. Kaupeka.)
  • Moon and agriculture 181, 208, 370
  • Moon and childbirth 208
  • Moon and conception 4
  • Moon, Death of 208
  • Moon deities and birth 2
  • Moon god of agriculture 370
  • Moon is husband of all women 4
  • Moon myths 208 etc.
  • Moon, Phases of 181, 182
  • Moon, Phases of named 180
  • Moon, Time division based on 180
  • Moon, Women greet the new 208
  • Moon. (See Nights of moon.)
  • Morality enters into religion 3
  • Mordant used in dyeing 517
  • Moriori folk abandon fighting 224
  • Moriori month names etc. 187
  • Moriori weapons 260
  • Mortuary memorials (see Cenotaphs) 61
  • Mouriuri folk, Clothing of 505
  • Mourning 55
  • Mourning marked by punitive fighting 59
  • Mourning, House of 58
  • Mourning marked by mode of cutting hair 58
  • Mourning, Tops employed to emphasise 126
  • Mourning. (See Laceration. Kiri mate. Laments.)
  • Mua and muri 72
  • Mummification a mere drying process 55
  • Muru, The custom of 59
  • Music—Effect of on Maori 148
  • Musical instruments 147
  • Musical instruments. (See Flutes. Jew's harp. Gongs. Nguru. Nose Flute. Pu hoho. Pu kaea. Pu torino. Rehu. String. Trumpets. Whio.
  • Muskets bartered for slaves 285
  • Muskets. (See Firearms. Gunfire.)
  • Mussels. Fresh water—How gathered 417, 419page 618
  • Mu torere—A game resembling draughts 111, 112
  • Mutton birds—How taken 486
  • Mutu kaka—A bird-snaring device 470, 472
  • Myth of Mataora 546
  • Mythical origin of Nga Potiki 2
  • Myths (see Folk lore) 213, etc.
  • Myths, etc., based on astronomy 209
  • Nails as ear pendants 540
  • Nails planted to produce a crop 428
  • Names, Tapu (see Nomenclature) 22
  • Namu as a name for green 219
  • Nanu or ngaru of new-born infant 24
  • Natural phenomena controlled by magic 217
  • Natural phenomena personified 205, 208
  • Necklaces 543
  • Neck pendants 540
  • Neinei village depopulated by epidemic 37
  • Neolithic man farewelled 39
  • Nephrite. (See Greenstone.)
  • Nest house, or lying-in hut 6
  • Net, Ceremonial hauling of new 405
  • Net floats 402
  • Net making 402, 403, 404, 409, 410
  • Net making a tapu task 402, 403
  • Net making, Mesh gauge 402
  • Net making, Superstition pertaining to 403, 404, 405
  • Net sinkers 402
  • Nets, Fishing 402, 447
  • Nets, Funnel-shaped 407, 409
  • Nets, Hoop 405, 407, 412, 447
  • Nets, Large 410, 411
  • Nets, Names of 404, 405, 407
  • Nets. (See Ahuriri. Kaharoa. Seines. Tawiri.)
  • New Zealand-New Guinea parallels 548, 557, 573
  • Ngahuru—A far-spread term for “ten” 175
  • Nga Potiki tribe, Mythical origin of 2
  • Ngarue and his magic dart 95
  • Nga-tapa pa 350
  • Ngati-awa versus Tuhoe fighting 226
  • Ngau paepae rite 43
  • Ngehingehi, or oil press 195
  • Nguru. or nose flute 155
  • Nights of moon named 180, 181
  • Nights of moon named after sun and moon 181
  • Niu, a divinatory practice 128
  • Nomenclature—Naming of infants 22
  • Nomenclature, Personal. (See Personal names.)page 619
  • Nomenclature, Topographical. (See Place names.)
  • Nomenclature. (See Names.)
  • Nose flattening 24
  • Nose flute 153, 155
  • Nose ornaments 292, 535
  • Nose ornaments—The nasal “spritsail yard” 292
  • Nudity an occasional usage 507
  • Nudity of actors in ritual performances 14
  • Nudity of children 35, 511
  • Numeration 173
  • Numeration—Binary system 177, 178
  • Numeration—Decimal system 179
  • Numeration, Element of confusion in 179
  • Numeration—Hoko system 176
  • Numeration. (See Counting.)
  • Nurses 51
  • Ochre—How obtained 543
  • Octopus eaten 415
  • Offerings to atua (gods) 423, 442, 450, 459, 485
  • Offerings to gods of agriculture 386, 389
  • Offerings to Pani 389
  • Offerings to Pleiades 387
  • Offerings to Rongo 389
  • Offerings to stars 213, 214
  • Offerings waved to heavens 42
  • Ohangai pa, Hawera district 349
  • Oho rangi rite 15, 19, 42
  • Oil press 195
  • Oil, Scented toilet 543
  • O kaka—Stones carried by kaka parrots 467
  • Okuratope pa, Waimate 327
  • Omens 217, 290, 293, 400, 407, 441, 455, 456, 458, 562, 575, etc.
  • Omens derived from stars, etc. 229
  • Omens. (See Aitua.)
  • O matenga—Death journey food 53
  • One Tree Hill pa, Auckland 307
  • Orakau, Incident of fight at 229
  • Ordeal by spear throwing 273
  • Organs of reproduction, Powers of 228
  • Orion year (see Year) 186
  • Ornaments, Personal 532
  • Orongonui night of moon 181, 375
  • Orongonui season 186
  • Otaka pa, New Plymouth 336
  • Otane night of moon 181
  • Otatara pa, at Taradale 307, 314page 620
  • Outrigger, Double 222
  • Owl 482, 559
  • Pa (Pa maori—Native fortified villages) 304
  • Pa and kainga—Fortified and unfortified villages 305
  • Pa at Mercury Bay described by Cook 316
  • Pa attacked by French in 1772 345
  • Pa besieged 335, 338
  • Pa building ceremonial 340
  • Pa, Casemates introduced in 350
  • Pa, Ceremonial opening of new 341
  • Pa—Changes in, caused by firearms 348, 349, 350
  • Pa, Circumvallation of 337
  • Pa, Cliff 347
  • Pa, Defensive works of 306, 312, 314, 319, 348
  • Pa, Entrance passages of 318, 334
  • Pa—Escalading practised 338
  • Pa, Fighting stages of 316, 331, 344
  • Pa—Fire employed by assailants 314, 331
  • Pa gateway 334
  • Pa, Hill 307, 311, 321
  • Pa—How attacked 337, 345
  • Pa, Interior arrangements of 335
  • Pa—Island refuges 318, 347
  • Pa, Large 307, 314, 349
  • Pa maioro (having earthwork defences) 306
  • Pa, Mauri of 340, 341, 342
  • Pa, Model 310
  • Pa, Names of different types of 310
  • Pa, Names of parts of 320, 331, 334, 343, 345
  • Pa, Night watchmen of 332
  • Pa—Numerous in some districts only 305, 306
  • Pa—Numerous where food supplies abundant 306
  • Pa of Auckland district 307
  • Pa of England 310
  • Pa of Fiji 333, 351
  • Pa of Ireland 310
  • Pa of Polynesia 351, 352
  • Pa of Rapa Island 351
  • Pa of South Island of New Zealand 305
  • Pa of Tonga 327, 333
  • Pa of Wellington district 305
  • Pa placed under protection of gods 342
  • Pa, Preparations for defence of 339
  • Pa ramparts—How built 321
  • Pa, Remarks by Banks concerning 309
  • Pa, Sites of 307
  • Pa, Subterranean passages of 334page 621
  • Pa, Three types of 311
  • Pa, Trenches of 320
  • Pa tuwatawata—Stockaded villages 306, 307
  • Pa, Water supply of 335, 347
  • Pa whakairo (superior pa) 340
  • Pa. (See Ramparts. Hill forts. Stockades. Sapping. Watchmen. Watch songs.)
  • Pae whakaruru—Peculiar device pertaining to parturition 8
  • Paint as a facial decoration 543, 545
  • Painted designs in houses 559, 571
  • Painted designs preceded tattooing 546, 548
  • Painted designs preceded wood carving 559
  • Paints 543, 545
  • Pairi ponga, or slabs of tree fern trunks 578, 590
  • Pakake design in wood carving (see Carvings) 576
  • Paki o Matariki—A weather term 215
  • Pahi o Ruhi—A weather term 215
  • Pakipaki mahunga, or head-drying process 61
  • Pakokori cradle (see Cradles) 23
  • Pakuru, or time beater 169
  • Pani and the Maui brothers 371
  • Pani and the kumara 370
  • Pani and Tiki 371
  • Pani as Ceres 43
  • Pani appealed to by crop planters 380, 381
  • Pani appealed to in sickness 43
  • Pani, Offerings to 389
  • Panoko fish—How taken 450
  • Parauri and birds 453
  • Para whakawai, or school of arms 227
  • Parbuckling, Method of 193
  • Paretai—A scraping implement 368
  • Parrakeet—How taken 479
  • Parrying, etc.—The art of karo 282
  • Parturition (see Birth) 8, 10
  • Parturition, Ceremonial pertaining to 8, 10, 11, 13
  • Parturition, Use of flutes in 25
  • Paritutu pa, New Plymouth 347
  • Passing of neolithic man 33
  • Pastimes and games 80, 88, 128, etc.
  • Pataka—Elevated storehouses 584
  • Pataka. (See Storehouses. Whata.)
  • Pataka, Carved 585, 586
  • Pathetic doubts of barbaric man 39
  • Patokotoko—A game 102
  • Patu onewa—A stone weapon 259
  • Patu paraoa—A bone weapon 263
  • Patu tawaka—An obsolete weapon 270page 622
  • Paua eyes of carved figures, Origin of 559
  • Peace-making 299, 300, 302
  • Peace-making ceremonial dance 300
  • Pekehawani—A star name 215
  • Pendants. (See under Ear. Neck. Rei paraoa. Tiki. Hei.)
  • Pentalpha in Polynesia 131
  • Personal adornment 532
  • Personal adornment. (See Ornaments. Pendants. Plumes, etc.)
  • Personal names 4
  • Personifications 2, 4, 14, 15, 29, 180, 181, 185, 205, 208, 213, 215, 216, 217, 452, 453, 455, etc.
  • Personified form of growth of vegetation 387, 388
  • Persons—How counted 178, 179
  • Peruperu—War dance and song 294
  • Pests among crops 388
  • Pewa bird-snaring apparatus 474, 475
  • Phallic flutes 25
  • Phallic rites 43
  • Phormium fibre—How prepared 514
  • Phormium plant 514
  • Pigeon—How taken 457, 458
  • Pigeon—Names for 461
  • Pig not mentioned in Maori tradition 354
  • Pig nursed by woman 4
  • Pihanga 576
  • Pit as a mortuary memorial 298
  • Pit dwellings 577
  • Pit stores 588
  • Pit traps for rats 500
  • Pito o Rangi, the ecliptic 209
  • Pito o Watea, the ecliptic 210
  • Place name origins 11
  • Plaits 531
  • Planting sweet potato a tapu task (see Kumara) 36
  • Platforms, Elevated 587, 588
  • Pleiades festival 215
  • Pleiades, Names of 212, 215
  • Pleiades, Offerings to 387
  • Pleiades year 186, 187, 188, 214
  • Plumes, Decorative 534
  • Po—The twelve 5
  • Pohaturoa pa at Atiamuri 347
  • Pohoi ear pendant 535
  • Poi dance 110
  • Poisons 50, 51
  • Poisons. (See Karaka. Katipo. Waoriki. Wharangi.)
  • Pokiha's big net 411page 623
  • Pokipoki rat trap 497
  • Pokirua—A game 99
  • Polack lulls pigeons to sleep 458
  • Polynesian voyagers studied stars 205
  • Polynesians an adaptive people 355, 356
  • Polynesians an agricultural people 354
  • Pongiangia nose ornament 535
  • Popoa—Tapu food 69, 72
  • Population formerly numerous 313
  • Porakaraka—A swinging cradle (see Cradles) 23
  • Poroporoaki—Farewell speech of dying person 52
  • Poroporoaki—The last greeting to the neolithic Maori 592
  • Poroteteke—A game 128
  • Poro toroa—Bone pendants 543
  • Posture dances. (See Haka. War dance. Maimai.)
  • Potae tauā—Mourning fillets 59
  • Potato, Introduction of 38
  • Potato, Sweet. (See Kumara.)
  • Pou uekaha, or birth registration 16
  • Pouerua pa, Taiamai district 373
  • Poutiriao—Guardians of universe 209, 398
  • Poutiriao—Guardians appealed to in sickness 47
  • Pouwaka—Receptacle for bones of dead 587
  • Pouwhenua—A weapon 251
  • Presents. (See Gifts.)
  • Priests. (See Tohunga.)
  • Primo-geniture 2
  • Proverbs, etc, 24, 27, 30, 35, 60, 64, 69, 75, 76, 184, 214, 215, 225, 226, 231, 238, 290, 303, 331, 396, 432, 440, 444, 457, 458, 460, 461, 477, 478, 484, 486, 487, 591.
  • Proverbs pertaining to war 231
  • Pua a Te Roku—A game preserve 457
  • Puaka bird trap 479
  • Puhi-kainaonao—A malignant demon 34
  • Pu hoho—A wind instrument 151
  • Pu kaea—A trumpet 157
  • Pukana—Facial distortion 103
  • Pukepoto—A blue pigment (see Paints) 543, 545
  • Pukepoto as a term for blue (see Colour names) 218
  • Puke-rangiora pa, siege of 337
  • Punanga, or refuges 306
  • Puna a Tinirau 399
  • Puna i Rangiriri—Originating place of all fish 399
  • Punaweko and birds 453, 455
  • Punga charm 298
  • Punipuni—A game 114
  • Purificatory rites 3, 45, 289
  • Purificatory rites over human soul 53page 624
  • Purificatory rites. (See Absolution.)
  • Pūtēhue—Personified form of gourd 392
  • Pu torino, or flageolet 150
  • Pu-whakahara, Te 399
  • Puzzles, riddles, etc. 113, 114
  • Quail—How taken 483
  • Quipu mnemonics known to Maori 201
  • Raihe poaka episode at Puke-rangiora 338
  • Rainbow 217
  • Rain-making ceremony 163
  • Rakahore personifies rock 417
  • Rakamaomao represents wind 455
  • Rakau whakapapa—Mnemonic aids 201
  • Ramparts of pa, Names of 345
  • Ramparts of pa without stockades 309, 319, 327
  • Rangiriri pa 350
  • Rangitapu appliance for hoisting ridgepole 195
  • Rapa Island, Fortified places of 351
  • Rara-taunga-rere and fertility 453
  • Ra ririki, or little suns 208
  • Rats as swimmers 502
  • Rats—How cooked 502
  • Rats—How taken 492
  • Rats introduced into New Zealand 354
  • Rats, Names of 492
  • Rats, Trapping 494
  • Rats, Trapping, Tapu of 500, 501
  • Rat traps 494
  • Rat traps. (See Pokipoki. Tawhiti. Torea. Waharua.)
  • Rata tree—Why it does not grow straight 454
  • Raukata-uri personifies pleasure 78
  • Rauru the voyager 559
  • Rauru and carving 559
  • Rauru whiwhia5, 8
  • Rau wharangi, the thin veil 56
  • Red, Terms denoting 219
  • Rehu—A form of flute 155
  • Rehua and forest 455
  • Rehua—A summer star 215
  • Rei paraoa—A neck pendant 540, 542
  • Reo irirangi, or spirit voice 137
  • Restrictions of trapping operations 500, 501
  • Reti—A modern fishing device 423
  • Revenge, Spirit of 232
  • Rev. Yate spears ducks! 273
  • Rice names 371page 625
  • Rice names preserved by Maori folk 355
  • Ridgepole of house—How lifted 195
  • Ringa tu cult 39
  • Ripa—A rite to avert evil 40
  • Ripi paua implement 417
  • Riri whenua—Land disputes 226
  • Rites, Purificatory 3, 45, 289
  • Rites. (See Aspersion. Branchlet. Diagnostic. Divinatory. Kaiure. Koroingo. Maioha. Miri. Nudity. Offerings. Oho rangi. Ngau paepae, Rain Taumaha. Tira ora. Tohi. Tua. Water. Wero ngerengere. Whakahoro. Whakanoa. Whakanoho. Whakato. Whakau. Phallic rites.)
  • Rivers—How crossed 88, 89
  • Robin—How taken 481
  • Rolled twine 516
  • Rona, the moon guide 398
  • Rongo a whare—Carefully arranged peace 300
  • Rongo and agriculture 208, 361, 370, 375, 386
  • Rongo, Offerings to 389
  • Rongomai 43, 45
  • Rongo-ma-Tane 370, 386
  • Rongo-ma-Tane at Tahiti 370
  • Rongo-maui 370
  • Rongotute, Ship of 37
  • Roof pitch of houses 576
  • Roria—Jew's harp 170
  • Rua and art of weaving 514
  • Rua and Tangaroa 558
  • Rua and wood carving 558, 559
  • Rua i te horahora 11
  • Rua i te pukenga 11
  • Rua represents knowledge 558
  • Ruahine or priestess 298
  • Rua kai, or fontanelles 4
  • Ruaki pa, Hawera 336, 337
  • Rua kopiha—Store pit 588
  • Ruamano—Atua 43
  • Rua ngarehu 554
  • Rua-pekapeka pa 349
  • Rua tahuhu—Store pit 590
  • Rua tawaero—Store pit 590
  • Rua ti betokens social importance 395
  • Rua torea, or pit trap 501
  • Ruhanui represents peace and pleasure 78
  • Runners, Noted 295page 626
  • Sachets as neck pendants 543
  • Sandals 522
  • Sapping occasionally practised 337
  • Scents 543
  • School of arms 227, 281
  • School of learning 25, 214
  • Science, Dawn of 171
  • Scotch settlers sail for New Zealand 37
  • Scouts 238
  • Scroll in carving 573
  • Scroll in tattooing 557
  • Seasonal conditions betokened by stars 375
  • Seasons, Names of 186
  • Seasons. (See Maruaroa. Orongonui.)
  • Second sight. (See Divination. Matakite.)
  • Seers 144
  • Seers. (See Divination. Matakite.)
  • Seesaw—A pastime 122
  • Seines, Large (see Nets) 410, 411
  • Seines—Names of parts 404
  • Self-reliance of women 8
  • Sennit work in house decoration 567
  • Sex of unborn child—How known 4, 5
  • Shamanistic humbugs 31
  • Shark fishing 415
  • Shark teeth as pendants 537
  • Shark tooth cutting implement 270
  • Shellfish 417
  • Shellfish, Mythical origin of 417
  • Shell middens 417
  • Shell ornaments 535, 543
  • Shell trumpets 162
  • Ship of Rongotute 37
  • Shrimps—How taken 450
  • Sick persons bathed 44
  • Sick persons carried home 35
  • Sick persons segregated 34
  • Sick persons, Treatment of 39, 40, 44
  • Sickness caused by gods 32, 34
  • Sickness, Cures for 48
  • Sickness. (See Disease. Gods. Medicines. Pani. Sick persons. Tiki. Vapour bath. Wounds.)
  • Sinkers, Net and line 421, 423
  • Singing, Maori love of (see Songs) 107, 136
  • Single combat 286
  • Skidways used when hauling canoes, etc. 193
  • Skipping as a pastime 122
  • Skulls of dead, Devices painted on 66page 627
  • Skulls of dead placed among crops 386, 387
  • Slavery 299
  • Slaves bartered for muskets 285
  • Sleeping arrangements 570
  • Sling 85, 87, 200
  • Sling as a weapon 275
  • Smoke vent in house roof 576
  • Snares—How made 459
  • Social pleasures much appreciated 78, 136
  • Social status decides aspect of ceremonies 31
  • Soils, Maori knowledge of 358
  • Solar year (see Year) 180
  • Solstice, Winter 208
  • Solstices recognised 180
  • Song avenges a defeat 233
  • Song, Hauling 330
  • Song of Puhirangi, Miramar 140
  • Song of returning fowlers 490
  • Songs and singing 107, 109, 135, 136
  • Songs, Classes of 144
  • Songs difficult to translate 136, 139
  • Songs—Lament for defunct pig 141
  • Songs of watchmen 330, 333
  • Songs, Prophetic 144
  • Songs, Subjects of 141, 146
  • Songs, Tattooing 555
  • Songs, Work 379, 381
  • Songs. (See Haka. Laments. War songs. Tattooing Songs. Umere.)
  • Sooterkin, Use of 4
  • Soul farewelled to homeland and spirit world 69, 141
  • Soul guided to spirit world 53
  • South Island a refuge for broken tribes 235
  • South Island fortified villages 305
  • Southern Cross 212
  • Spades and shovels 358, 359, 368
  • Speeches of dying persons 52, 53
  • Spear points of human bone 464
  • Spears, War 240
  • Spears, War—How used 244, 245
  • Spears, Throwing 272, 282
  • Spears, Whipthrown 200, 274
  • Spirits of forbears call dying persons 30
  • Spitting for luck 423
  • Spool necklaces (see Necklaces) 543
  • “Spritsail yard” nose ornament 292
  • Stages, Fighting. (See Fighting. Pa.)
  • Stars and food supplies 206page 628
  • Stars foretell aspect of seasons 216
  • Stars greeted with songs, etc. 206, 214
  • Stars, Maori knowledge of 205
  • Stars mentioned in songs 208
  • Stars, Myths concerning 213, 214, 215
  • Stars named 206, 208, 212
  • Star names far carried 208
  • Stars, Offerings made to 213, 214
  • Stars personified 208
  • Stars, Return of, greeted 216
  • Stars. (See Astronomy. Tatai arorangi. Tohunga kokorangi. Whanau.)
  • Sterility of women a modern feature 23
  • Stillborn children (see Atua kahu) 12
  • Stilt walking 121
  • Stockades of pa, or fortified villages 344, 349
  • Stockades blinded 349, 350
  • Stockades, Elevated 324
  • Stockades, Lashings of 327
  • Stockades, Names of 324, 344
  • Stockades, Oblique 316, 331
  • Stockades occasionally pulled down by assailants 324, 337
  • Stockades, Old and modern 321
  • Stockades, Posts of 324, 327, 328
  • Stockades, Posts of—How erected 330
  • Stockades—Rails 328
  • Stockades. (See Pa.)
  • Stone adzes 200
  • Stone age astronomer “put sticks in the ground” 210
  • Stone bowls of Bay of Plenty 129
  • Stone bowls of Polynesia 131
  • Stone cutters 583
  • Stone drilling—How effected 197
  • Stone images represent gods of agriculture 370, 386
  • Stone implements—How fashioned 201
  • Stone mortuary memorials 298
  • Stone represents Rongo-ma-Tane 370
  • Stone weapons 254
  • Stones, Mana possessing 11
  • Storage pits 390, 588, 590
  • Storage pits for water 590
  • Storehouses, Elevated 584
  • Storehouses—How constructed 585
  • Storehouses named 584
  • Story telling 115
  • Stove, Self-burning 7
  • Stringed musical instruments 170
  • Stump of a tree felled with stone tools 198page 629
  • Sub-tropical food plants needed much care 355, 356
  • Suicide 50
  • Summer Maid, The 180
  • Sun has two wives 180
  • Superstition, Effects of 32
  • Superstitions 10, 12, 15, 23, 467, etc.
  • Supreme Being. (See 10.)
  • Surf riding 91
  • Survival of fittest in Maori life 35
  • Swamp hens as pests in cultivations 357, 358
  • Sweet potato. (See Kumara.)
  • Swimming (see Surf-riding) 88, 92
  • Swings and swinging 89, 122
  • Swings, Extraordinary use of 90
  • Swings of Māna-tē-pā 90
  • Syphilis, Ravages of 38
  • Taharua235, 236
  • Tahuaroa=this world 10
  • Taiaha—A two-handed weapon 247
  • Taiaha—How used 249
  • Taiaha versus singlestick 249
  • Taiamai district an agricultural area 373, 374
  • Taiki and tamaoa—Defilement of tapu 454
  • Takahi mana 225
  • Takamaitu, etc.—Thunder names 19
  • Takanga o te ra—Solstices 180
  • Takataka-putea and Marere-o-tonga 78
  • Takitumu an outrigger vessel 222
  • Takoto system of measurement 190
  • Takurua=Sirius 215
  • Takutaku charm and rite 6, 41
  • Tama-a-hara—A grievous offence or bitterly hated person 64
  • Tama-riwai, Origin of name 4
  • Tama-te-uira invoked 15
  • Tane and birds 452, 453, 457
  • Tane appealed to in sickness 47
  • Tane i te hokahoka and birds 455
  • Tane i te rere and birds 455
  • Tane i te wao and forests 455
  • Tane i te whakapiripiri and houses 455
  • Tane mahuta 452
  • Tane mataahi 452
  • Tane represents sun 388
  • Tane versus Whiro 29
  • Tānga ngutu (lip tattooing) an important function 555
  • Tangaroa 398
  • Tangaroa and Rua 558
  • Tangatapū as a term for grey 221page 630
  • Tangi a Apakura, the Dirge of Apakura 60, 76
  • Tangotango and Uru-te-ngangana 213, 214
  • Taniko woven designs 516, 518
  • Taniwha versus the British Army! 249
  • Tapu2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 34, 38, 48, 459
  • Tapu birds 455
  • Tapu, Defilement of 454
  • Tapu, Different phases of 22
  • Tapu essential to welfare 38
  • Tapu food 69, 72
  • Tapu, Grades of 72
  • Tapu names 22
  • Tapu of birth 6, 7
  • Tapu of carving 575
  • Tapu of crops 375, 376, 379, 384
  • Tapu of death 67, 69, 71
  • Tapu of dwelling houses 561
  • Tapu of forest 454
  • Tapu of fishing 399
  • Tapu of latrines 43
  • Tapu of net making, etc. 402, 403, 407
  • Tapu of new pa 340, 341
  • Tapu of tattooing 554
  • Tapu of trapping 500, 501
  • Tapu of weaving 513
  • Tapu, Removal of 21, 22, 42, 60, 73, 297, 298, 341, 342, 384, 407
  • Tapu, Transgression of 34, 227, 454
  • Tapu, Words become 22
  • Tapuhi—Attendants, nurses—Syn. puhi, rauhi 11, 13
  • Tara-koekoea—A pastime 132
  • Tara whakairo—A tattooed design 556, 557
  • Tareahi, tohunga 45
  • Taro, Cultivation of 390
  • Taro— How planted 392
  • Taro, Origin of 390
  • Taro, Southern limit of cultivation of 355
  • Taru o Tura 75
  • Tasman and his “mats” 505
  • Tasman, Vessels of, seen by Maori 347
  • Tatai arorangi—Science of astronomy 206
  • Tatau manawa—A pastime, etc. 127
  • Tatau pounamu—A firmly-bound peace 226, 300
  • Tattooed anklets 535
  • Tattooed belts 552
  • Tattooed Europeans 557
  • Tattooed eyelids 552
  • Tattooed heads—Trade in 557
  • Tattooed tongues 557page 631
  • Tattooing—Age of subject 548
  • Tattooing—Artist paid for services 555
  • Tattooing a tapu process 554
  • Tattooing by puncture and laceration 546
  • Tattooing, Cross a design of 547, 552
  • Tattooing—First designs employed 547
  • Tattooing implements 552
  • Tattooing—Kauwae design far-spread 548, 556
  • Tattooing—Maori designs at Aitutaki Isle 548
  • Tattooing, Method of 552, 554
  • Tattooing—Moko kuri style 540
  • Tattooing, No tribal marks in 545
  • Tattooing, Object of 549
  • Tattooing of Egyptian women 556
  • Tattooing of South Island 551, 552
  • Tattooing of Tikopia Island 552
  • Tattooing of women 547, 548, 549, 550, 555, 556
  • Tattooing, Old styles of 549, 550
  • Tattooing, Origin of 546, 548, 552
  • Tattooing—Parkinson's sketch of old design 549, 550
  • Tattooing pigment 553
  • Tattooing songs 555
  • Tattooing, Terms denoting 546
  • Tattooing, Unusual designs of 550, 552, 556
  • Tattooing. (See Moko papa. Rua ngarehu. Tanga ngutu.)
  • Tau—A class of songs 144
  • Taumaha rite 70
  • Taumata atua, or mediums 386
  • Taumatua, or māra tautane 372
  • Taupunipuni—A game 127
  • Tauranga ika—Fishing grounds 401
  • Tauri komore, or anklets 535
  • Tawhirimatea invoked 14, 15
  • Tawhiti trap for rats 494
  • Tawhiti makamaka trap 498
  • Tawhiti papa trap 500
  • Tawiri fish net 407
  • Teeth of dead extracted 74, 537
  • Teeth of dead used as pendants 537
  • Teeth of Maori 49
  • Teka, or dart 93
  • Tekau as=10 179
  • Tekau as=20 174
  • Tekoteko of house gable 575
  • Tere a Tu te paengaroa 347
  • Terraced hill forts 307, 321
  • Tete form of spear 241
  • Tewhatewha—A two-handed weapon 245, 251page 632
  • Textile arts 503
  • Three fingers on carved images 574
  • Thunder Maid—A personification 15
  • Thunder making. (See Oho rangi.)
  • Thunder, Names for 19
  • Thunder produced by magic (see Oho rangi) 15
  • Tiepa rite to attract birds 457
  • Tiki pendant 540
  • Tiki pendant—A fructifying amulet 5
  • Tiki popohe 540
  • Tiki and Pani 371
  • Tiki appealed to in sickness 43
  • Tiki=cenotaph 61
  • Tikihemi fish 450
  • Timber hewing 578
  • Time beating sticks 169
  • Time denoted by stars 213
  • Time, Division of 179
  • Time, Division of—Intercalation practised 182
  • Time reckoned by nights of moon 180, 184
  • Time, Words employed to denote 188
  • Timo—A form of grubber 368
  • Tinaku, Meaning of 370
  • Tinirau represents fish 398, 399
  • Ti para (see Cordyline) 394, 395
  • Tira ora rite 69, 289
  • Ti rakau—A game 83
  • Tirango—A toy 164
  • Ti ringa—A game 97
  • Tiritiri o matangi—The eleventh heaven 10
  • Tirou—A peculiar implement employed in warfare 283
  • Tirourou—An implement 369
  • Titikura charm 45
  • Tiwha—A curious usage 287
  • Tobogganing 121
  • Tohi ariki rite 18, 25
  • Tohi ariki rite. (See Baptism. Tua.)
  • Tohi ora rite 39
  • Tohi rite performed over infant 13, 18, 25
  • Tohi taua rite performed over warriors 228, 289
  • Tohunga (see Ruahine) 39, 45
  • Tohunga ariki 69
  • Tohunga kokorangi—Astrologists, etc 206
  • Tohunga tarahau 13
  • Tohunga tohi 13
  • Tohunga tohi ora 19
  • Toki hohoupu—A weapon 263
  • Tomahawk as a weapon 253, 270page 633
  • Tombs 64
  • Tongan forts 327, 333, 351
  • Toothache, Weird methods of curing 49
  • Topa or niu, a pastime 128
  • Tops and top spinning 122
  • Tops employed in mourning for dead 126
  • Torea or pit trap 500
  • Torere, a game resembling draughts 111, 112
  • Totara moana, a marine product 426
  • Traps. (See under Birds. Fish. Rats.)
  • Tree burial 63
  • Tree climbing 195, 460, 488
  • Tree climbing as a pastime 87
  • Tree dwellings 578
  • Tree felling, Placatory rite connected with 452
  • Tree felling—The balista device 197, 198
  • Tree ferns furnish building materials 578, 590
  • Tree gongs 167
  • Tree planted at birth of infant 21
  • Trees and man from common source 452
  • Trees, fertility of personified 453
  • Trees, fertility of rendered permanent 453
  • Trees—How girth was measured 190
  • Trees, Sexes of 453
  • Trolling for kahawai, etc. 423
  • Trumpets, Flax 160
  • Trumpets, Shell 162
  • Trumpets, Wooden 157
  • Tua baptismal rite (see Baptism) 7, 13, 21
  • Tua o Rongo rite 22
  • Tua o Tu rite 22
  • Tuahu, Curious rite performed at 11
  • Tuapa rite to prevent conception 4
  • Tuhi awarua—A painted device on skulls 66
  • Tuhi korae—A painted device 66
  • Tuhi mareikura—A painted device 66
  • Tuhoe tribe 2
  • Tuhoe tribe a hardy folk 35
  • Tuhoe versus Arawa fight 226
  • Tuhoe versus Taupo fight 226
  • Tui—How taken 473
  • Tui, Names for 477
  • Tui taught to talk 478
  • Tuku charm to facilitate birth 5
  • Tuku heru festival 75
  • Tu-matapongia—A condition caused by infringement of tapu 228
  • Tu-mata-rehurehu—A condition caused by infringement of tapu 228
  • Tunuhaere pa at Whanganui 336page 634
  • Tunui-a-te-ika—A personification and atua 43, 45
  • Tuora rite 5
  • Tupai—A personification and atua 34
  • Tupe charm 298
  • Turanga a tohu—A divinatory dance 290
  • Tutu poison 51
  • Tutu poison. (See Karaka. Katipo. Waoriki. Wharangi.)
  • Tutukai—A game 114
  • Twelve as a prominent and mystic number 5, 209, 210
  • Twins 23
  • Uhi a Mataora—Tattooing implement 552
  • Umanganui 226
  • Umere or pæan 407
  • Umu potaka of ceremonial feast 22
  • Umu ruahine of ceremonial feast 22
  • Umu tuakaha of ceremonial feast 22
  • Umu tarawai—A bone steaming process 279
  • Upoko o te rewharewha—An epidemic 37
  • Upokororo, or grayling—How taken 449
  • Upokororo, Species or varieties of 449
  • Upokotiti—A pastime 131
  • Ure putete 507
  • Uru-te-ngangana and Tangotango 213, 214
  • Vapour bath 50
  • Venus—Handsome women compared to 214
  • Venus 214
  • Venus, Names of 212
  • Villages, Fortified and open 304, 305, 310, 313
  • Villages. (See Pa.)
  • Voyagers accompanied by star-gazing experts 210
  • Voyagers. (See Polynesian voyagers.)
  • Waerenga-a-Hika pa, Gisborne 328
  • Wahaika,—A bone weapon 265
  • Waharua rat trap 497
  • Wahine rahiri 341
  • Wahine rauhi, or nurses 51
  • Wai kaihua—Nectar of rātā blossoms 458
  • Wai matua—Virgin waters 13, 14
  • Waiora a Tane—Sunlight 29
  • Wairua—Human soul 40, 41
  • Waitahanui pa, Taupo 349
  • Wai taua ceremony 288, 289
  • Wai tuhi and wai taeke—Bird snaring 461
  • Waka huia—Small boxes, often carved 545page 635
  • Waka kereru—Bird-snaring apparatus 462
  • Waka o Tamarereti 215
  • Waka taupa—Receptacle for umbilical cord 11
  • Waoriki—A poisonous plant (see Poisons) 51
  • War a series of raids 287
  • War, Causes of 225
  • War cries 296
  • War customs 224
  • War dance 103, 290, 294
  • War—First man slain offered to gods 296, 297
  • War frequent in some districts 305
  • War gods 229
  • War—How assistance was asked 287
  • War, Intertribal 225
  • War parties 225, 238
  • War parties, Return of 297
  • War rites (see Wai taua) 288
  • War songs 144, 295
  • War, Symbolical acts connected with 288
  • Warts—How cured 49
  • Watchmen of fortified villages 332
  • Watch songs 144, 330, 333
  • Watea personifies space 210
  • Water cisterns 590
  • Water—How obtained in some besieged places 337, 347
  • Water in rites. (See Aspersion. Baptism. Immersion.)
  • Water jump or kokiri 88
  • Waters of life myth 181, 208
  • Waters of Tane-pi 53
  • Weak phases of native character 237
  • Weak tribes driven southward 235
  • Weaning infants 22
  • Weapons 239
  • Weapons—Charms repeated over. (See Hoa.)
  • Weapons—Missile 272, 332
  • Weapons, Names of 240, 241, 242, 247, 254
  • Weapons, Stone 254
  • Weapons, Striking 245
  • Weapons, Training in use of (see School of arms) 81
  • Weapons. (See Patu.)
  • Weavers'threads—How rolled 516
  • Weaving a primitive process 506
  • Weaving—How taught 511, 513
  • Weaving, Method of 511
  • Weaving, Patroness of 514
  • Weaving processes of South Island 518
  • Weaving. (See Fibres.)
  • Wedges, Splitting 193page 636
  • Werewere kokako—Wattles of crow 220
  • Wero ngerengere—A magic rite to implant disease 49
  • Whai charms for healing 48
  • Whaitiri invoked 15
  • Whakahoro rite to release from tapu 45, 47, 297
  • Whakairo—Meaning of term 546
  • Whakairo rakau—Wood carving (see Carving) 559
  • Whakamoe, The passing of 33
  • Whakanoa rite (see Tapu, removal of) 73
  • Whakanoho manawa rite 48
  • Whakapua, or smoking treatment 50
  • Whakato tamariki rite to cause conception 3
  • Whakau rite 73
  • Whakawaiu—Milk-producing foods 3
  • Whakawiri implement 467
  • Whale tooth neck pendant 540, 542
  • Whales attracted by mauri 401
  • Whanau ariki, the heavenly bodies 209
  • Whanau marama—The heavenly bodies (the Children of Light) 30, 205, 206
  • Whangai hau rite 297
  • Whanui (Vega) calls the husbandman 216, 370, 388
  • Wharangi poison (see Poisons) 51
  • Wharekaho pa at Mercury Bay described by Cook 318
  • Whare kahu. or fœtus house 6
  • Whare karioi 79
  • Whare kohanga, or “nest house” 6
  • Wharekohu burial cave at Kapiti 67
  • Whare manuku, or pit dwellings 577, 578
  • Whare mata—The house of woodcraft, etc. 458, 459
  • Whare ngakau 235
  • Whare pakimairo, or play house 79
  • Whare pora, or house of weaving 51
  • Whare potae, or house of mourning 58
  • Whare puni, or sleeping huts 561, 563, 569, 571, 577
  • Whare purakau, or legend house—a school of learning 284
  • Whare rauhi—Sick chamber 51
  • Whare rehia, or house of pleasure 79
  • Whare takaha—Syn. Whare mata 458
  • Whare tapere, or house of pleasure 77, 79
  • Whare tirawa—A rude form of hut 578
  • Whare tirepa—Hut with shed roof 578
  • Whare whakairo—Houses adorned with carved designs 561, 571
  • Whare whakanoho, or framed houses of wrought timber 562
  • Whata and pataka—Storage platforms and houses 587, 588
  • Whata koiwi—A receptacle for bones of dead 587
  • Whata puaroa—A stage used as a tapu place 72
  • Whatu moana denotes a quality 290
  • Wheku and ruru carved designs 575page 637
  • Whenua pua, or fruitful lands 457
  • Whio—A musical instrument 154
  • Whip-thrown spear 87, 200, 274
  • Whiro 29, 30, 33
  • Whizzer, or korohuhu 164
  • Wilkes stated that Maori could not catch birds 458
  • Wind names employed to denote compass points 210, 212
  • Window or smoke vent 570
  • Winter Maid, The 180
  • Wohlers on stamina of Maori 44
  • Women and agriculture 378
  • Women accompanied raiding forces 231
  • Women as bird snarers 460
  • Women as fighters 338
  • Women as weavers 513, 514, 518
  • Women, Clothing of 507, 508, 509
  • Women, Disabilities of 442
  • Women in ritual performances 341
  • Women occasionally tattooed like men 551
  • Women, Self-reliance of 8
  • Women segregated at birth of child 6
  • Women, Tattooing of 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 556
  • Wood carving 571, 573, 584, 585
  • Wood carving, Involved designs of 573
  • Wood carving—Natural forms distorted 573
  • Wood carving, Origin of 558, 559
  • Wood carving. (See Hura-Waikato. Manaia. Marakihau. Pakake. Rauru. Rua. Three fingers. Whakairo.)
  • Woodcraft 451
  • Woodcraft. (See under Birds. Forest. Rats. Snares. Trees, etc.)
  • Woodhen—How taken 481, 484
  • Words become tapu 22, 501
  • Work songs 379, 381
  • Worms, Parasitic 50
  • Wounds 50
  • Wounds cauterised 48
  • Wrestling 82
  • Written language unknown to Maori 201
  • Yam cultivated in New Zealand 355, 357, 390
  • Year, Babylonian 188
  • Year, Commencement of Maori 186, 187, 214, 215
  • Year, Egyptian 188
  • Year, Hawaiian 188
  • Year, Pleiades 186, 187, 188, 214
  • Year. (See Orion. Solar.)
  • Years, No tale of 180, 188
  • Yellow, Terms denoting 220