The Old-Time Maori
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- feast, expense, divided among hapu at, 157 f.; wedding, 72 f.
- feasts, 163
- fern-root, 203 f.
- fire, care in use of, 273; hissing, 280; human hair not to be put into, 281; kept and carried, 273; making of, 271 f.; origin of, 274 f.; as protection from frost, 281; rites with, 279 f.; sacred, 279; and witchcraft, 280 f.
- fires, different for cooking and heating, 273
- first-fruits, 182 f., 194, 219
- Firth, Raymond, 7
- fish, 218 f.; kinds of, 227, 234; hooks, natural, 234
- fishing, hook and line, 232 f.; grounds, property in, 220, 239
- food, of children, 136; contributed, by visiting hapu, 73; preparation of, 170; as protection from witchcraft, 280 f.; served separately to bride and groom, 72; supply after European settlement, 157
- Freycinetia banksii, see kiekie
- Fuchsia exorticata, see kotukutuku