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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
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