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Identifier: geographyofnewze00mars (find matches)
Title: The geography of New Zealand. Historical, physical, political, and commercial
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Marshall, Patrick, 1869-1950 Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932 Hamilton, Augustus, 1854-1913 Hogben, George, 1853-1920
Subjects: New Zealand -- Description and travel
Publisher: Christchurch (etc.) : Whitcombe and Tombs limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to say good-bye. It must not be thought that, either in the Northor in the South Island, there was a continual state ofwarfare, and it is quite a mistake to suppose that theold Maori life in peaceful times was one of privationand suffering; on the contrary, it was a very pleasantstate of existence: there was a variety and abundanceof food and agreeable and healthy occupation formind and body. Each season of the year and eachpart of the day had its specially allotted work bothfor men and women. The women, besides such house-hold duties as cooking and cleaning their houses,made the cloths and bedding required for theirfamilies. They gathered the flax and other fibresused, prepared and worked them up into a greatvariety of garments, many of which were of a kindthat took months to complete, and, when finished,were very beautiful specimens of workmanship. Themen gathered the food and stored it in wJiata orstorehouses biiilt on tall posts to protect the contents 422 GEOGRAPHY OF NEW ZEALAND
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Carved slab--))oui)oii—from the Maori House in the Colonial Museum,Wellington, representing an ancestor, THE MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND 423 from damp and rats. Besides such natural productsof the soil as fern-root and other roots, they culti-vated in the northern parts Immara, taro, hue, andkaralia. Fish of various kinds were caught in theproper season and cured by drying in the sun. Wildpigeons, Icaka, paradise ducks, and titi (muttonbirds) were cooked and preserved in their own fatin vessels made from the kelp seaweed, bound roundwith totara bark to strengthen them. Netting,carving, grinding by friction, and fitting stoneimplements and weapons occupied the time of theold men and also much of the young mens time.They beguiled the winter evenings by reciting tales,myths, histories, traditions, and tribal genealogies,chanting and singing poetry, telling fairy tales, andperforming dances. It was only when they becameill, and when harassed by their enemies that theancient Maori can with any
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