The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
List of Illustrations
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List of Illustrations
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Frontispiece. | The Maori as he was. | |
Fig. 1. | Maori type, showing Melanesian characteristics | 2 |
Fig. 2. | A Polynesian type | 3 |
Fig. 3. | A Polynesian type | 5 |
Fig. 4. | A Maori woman | 7 |
Fig. 5. | Mode of carrying infant | 9 |
Fig. 6. | Maori children | 11 |
Fig. 7. | A Maori boy | 12 |
Fig. 8. | Maori war-canoe | 15 |
Fig. 9. | Old canoe | 16 |
Fig. 10. | Rude craft of Chatham Isles | 17 |
Fig. 11. | Bow-piece of war-canoe | 19 |
Fig. 12. | Bow-piece of war-canoe | 19 |
Fig. 13. | Sail of Maori canoe | 20 |
Fig. 14. | Stern-piece of war-canoe | 23 |
Fig. 15. | Canoe-paddles | 26 |
Fig. 16. | Canoe-bailer | 29 |
Fig. 17. | Ancient outrigger canoe | 31 |
Fig. 18. | A mnemonic aid to memory | 34 |
Tailpiece. | The Tamil bell | 60 |
Fig. 19. | Images used as temporary shrines | 71 |
Fig. 20. | The niu divinatory rite | 75 |
Fig. 21. | The raurau rite | 75 |
Fig. 22. | A form of tuahu | 77 |
Fig. 23. | A stone mauri, or talismanic symbol | 81 |
Tailpiece. | Stone artifact of unknown use | 85 |
Fig. 24. | Fire-making implements | 94 |
Fig. 25. | Fire-generation | 95 |
Fig. 26. | The umu, or steaming-pit | 96 |
Fig. 27. | A hakari stage (after Thomson) | 97 |
Fig. 28. | A hakari stage (after Yate) | 98 |
Fig. 29. | A cenotaph | 109 |
Fig. 30. | A carved coffin | 110 |
Fig. 31. | A carved coffin | 111 |
Fig. 32. | Custom of covering the mouth | 112 |
Fig. 33. | Carrying burden | 113 |
Fig. 34. | The hongi salute | 115 |
Fig. 35. | The Maori form of drill | 117 |
Fig. 36. | Native using the cord drill | 118 |
Fig. 37. | The balista tree-felling apparatus | 119page x |
Fig. 38. | A type of Maori stone adze | 121 |
Fig. 39. | Stone chisels | 122 |
Fig. 40. | The Maori dog | 123 |
Fig. 41. | A curious method of measuring | 124 |
Fig. 42. | The moari | 132 |
Fig. 43. | A figure of cat's-cradle | 133 |
Fig. 44. | A haka, or posture dance | 135 |
Fig. 44A. | Three poi balls | 137 |
Fig. 45. | The mu torere game | 138 |
Fig. 46. | Maori kite | 139 |
Fig. 47. | Maori kite | 140 |
Fig. 48. | Maori kite | 141 |
Fig. 49. | Maori stilts | 142 |
Fig. 50. | Whip-top | 143 |
Fig. 51. | Humming-top | 144 |
Fig. 52. | The game of upoko-titi | 145 |
Fig. 53. | The karetao, or jumping-jack | 146 |
Fig. 54. | Wooden trumpets | 149 |
Fig. 55. | Two flutes | 150 |
Fig. 56. | Two pu torino | 151 |
Fig. 57. | Shell trumpet | 152 |
Fig. 58. | Bull-roarer and whizzer | 154 |
Fig. 59. | The patu paraoa | 158 |
Fig. 60. | Maori weapons, two-handed | 159 |
Fig. 61. | Short weapons: The patu onewa | 160 |
Fig. 62. | Short weapons: The kotiate | 161 |
Fig. 63. | The Mangapai bow | 162 |
Fig. 64. | Cross-section of village defences | 163 |
Fig. 65. | Stockaded village | 164 |
Fig. 66. | Defences of a pa seen by Cook | 165 |
Fig. 67. | Natives using the wooden spade | 167 |
Fig. 68. | Two forms of wooden spade | 169 |
Fig. 69. | Four forms of wooden spade | 170 |
Fig. 70. | A small cultivating-implement | 171 |
Fig. 71. | The timo, or wooden grubber | 172 |
Fig. 72. | Foot-rests of wooden spades | 173 |
Fig. 73. | A curious method of digging | 175 |
Fig. 74. | Stone image representing god of agriculture | 177 |
Fig. 75. | Taro plant | 179 |
Fig. 76. | Bird-snaring trough | 183 |
Fig. 77. | Bird-spear points | 184 |
Fig. 78. | Mutu, or snaring-perch | 185 |
Fig. 79. | A device for snaring birds | 186 |
Fig. 80. | Fowler taking blight-birds | 187 |
Fig. 81. | The pewa form of snare | 188 |
Fig. 82. | Rat-traps | 189 |
Fig. 83. | Native woman weaving | 193page xi |
Fig. 84. | Dressed Phormium fibre | 194 |
Fig. 85. | Mode of wearing garments | 195 |
Fig. 86. | Mode of wearing garments | 197 |
Fig. 87. | Aprons worn by women | 198 |
Fig. 88. | Cloak with decorated border | 200 |
Fig. 89. | Rough capes | 201 |
Fig. 90. | The Maori kilt | 202 |
Fig. 91. | Feather cloak | 203 |
Fig. 92. | Belts | 204 |
Fig. 93. | Woman making a basket | 205 |
Fig. 94. | Baskets and sandals | 206 |
Fig. 95. | Making a floor-mat | 207 |
Fig. 96. | Specimens of plaits | 209 |
Fig. 97. | A Maori dandy | 210 |
Fig. 98. | The hei matau pendant | 212 |
Fig. 99. | Maori necklaces | 213 |
Fig. 100. | Greenstone ear-pendants | 214 |
Fig. 101. | The koropepe and pekapeka pendants | 215 |
Fig. 102. | A rare form of pendant | 216 |
Fig. 103. | The heitiki | 217 |
Fig. 104. | Maori tattooing | 220 |
Fig. 105. | Maori tattooing | 221 |
Fig. 106. | Tattooing-implements | 222 |
Fig. 107. | A whare puni | 226 |
Fig. 108. | A superior house | 229 |
Fig. 109. | Lintel-piece of superior house | 231 |
Fig. 110. | Carved door-frame | 232 |
Fig. 111. | Carved object of unknown use | 233 |
Fig. 112. | Decorative designs on rafters | 236 |
Fig. 113. | Carved storehouse | 240 |
Fig. 114. | Food-storage pits | 241 |
Fig. 115. | Small hand-net | 246 |
Fig. 116. | Hoop-net | 247 |
Fig. 117. | Fish-stringer | 254 |
Fig. 118. | Barracouta-hook | 255 |
Fig. 119. | Fish-hook with wooden shank | 255 |
Fig. 120. | Kahawai-hooks | 256 |
Fig. 121. | Large wooden fish-hook | 257 |
Fig. 122. | Albatross-hooks | 259 |
Fig. 123. | Spreaders and sinkers | 260 |
Fig. 124. | Eel-weir | 261 |
Fig. 125. | Eel-pot and corf | 261 |
Fig. 126. | Lamprey-weir | 263 |
Fig. 127. | Lobster-pot | 265 |
Fig. 128. | Mussel-dredge | 266 |
Fig. 129. | Eel-spears | 267 |
Fig. 130. | Taha huahua, a neolithic epergne | 268 |