The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Volume 10Polynesian Society., 1901 Vocabularies of some of the languages of Polynesia are included. "A list of Polynesian languages" is given in v. 21, p. 67-71. |
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The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Volume 20 Polynesian Society (N.Z.) Visualização integral - 1911 |
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The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Volume 28 Polynesian Society (N.Z.) Visualização integral - 1919 |
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ahua ancient aria atua Auckland aute battle birds canoe chief coast descendants dialect district Efate fish forest haere hapu hapuku Hataitai Hawaiki hoki Hongi Journal ka mate kahawai Kai-Tahu kainga Kaipara Kaiwaka kaore Kapiti Katahi Kati-Toa katoa ki te killed kite kitea kupenga land living manawa manu Maori mate Mau-tara-nui mauri migration moana Motu native Nga-Puhi Ngai-Tahu Ngati Ngati-Awa Ngati-Ira Ngati-Kahu-ngunu Ngati-Toa Ngati-Whatua Niue noho numbers ocean Pakeha party paua PERCY SMITH POLYNESIAN SOCIETY Pomare Porirua priest rangi Rangitane Raukawa Rauparaha rawa reira river roto runga sacred Samoan South Island stone Tahu Takitumu tana Tangaroa tangata taniwha tapu Tara Taranaki taua Te Rauparaha tenei tetahi Titipa tohunga tona tonu tribe Tuahu tupua Turehu Ure-wera verb wahine Waikato Wairarapa Wairoa waka warriors Wellington Whanga-nui-a-Tara Whatua whenua word Zealand
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Página 190 - The m*u maita consists of the bowling, by two individuals or parties, of a circular, flat, and highly polished stone, two or three inches in diameter, and an inch thick, swelling with a slight convexity from the edges to the centre. The art consists in sending the stone, so as to pass between two short sticks driven in the ground near to each other, at the greatest distance ; or in the driving of one party by the other, by bowling the stone farthest. In the...
Página 124 - Pae-whenua, which we have always highly prized from the fact of our having regained it in battle after it was used by our enemies to kill two of our most celebrated chiefs, Te Pehi and Pokai-tara. Money vanishes and disappears, but this greenstone will endure as...
Página v - Society," and by the collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, relics, and other illustrations of the history of the Polynesian race. The term " Polynesia " is intended to include Australasia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Malaysia, as well as Polynesia proper.
Página 138 - ... beckoned her to come outside. There he questioned her about what had happened, and finding that she and his children had been kindly treated, he told his wife to wake Moki after he was gone, and to give him this message, " Your life was in my hands, but I gave it back to you.
Página 145 - Coming down to later times he spoke of the encroachments of the white people and the disappearance of the Maori in their old-time homes. No trace of anger or resentment could I detect in his words or tone, but a certain spirit of proud melancholy and despondency, as he said: — "Very great is my love for this land.
Página 152 - Any of their own people who went away in a ship and came back were also killed, and all this was occasioned by a dread of the introduction of disease. For years, too, after they began to venture out to ships, they would not immediately use anything obtained, but hung it up in the bush in quarantine for weeks.
Página 152 - We had been there but a few minutes, before the natives, I cannot say how many, rushed down the chasm out of the wood upon us. The endeavours we used to bring them to a parley, were to no purpose ; for they came with the ferocity of wild boars, and threw their darts.
Página 190 - On the same tahua or floor they also play at another game, resembling the pahe, which they call maita or uru maita. Two sticks are stuck in the ground only a few inches apart, at a distance of thirty or forty yards, and between these, but without striking either, the parties at play strive to throw their stone ; at other times, the only contention is, who can bowl it farthest along