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The Old-Time Maori

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  • sacrifice, on completion of whare kura, 311; use of seaweed in, 236
  • sand mixed with soil, 179
  • seaweed, 236
  • Selwyn, Bishop, 104
  • separation of husband and wife, 87
  • shark, 227
  • shaving, 238
  • shellfish, kinds of, 237 f.
  • signals, 333
  • skulls on fence posts, 330
  • slave-wives, 82
  • sleeping places, 283 f.
  • social organization, 38 f.
  • Solanum aviculare, see poporo
  • Sonchus oleraceus, see puwha
  • songs, action in harmony with, 187; of Hinemoa, 100; for Repora and Taranaki, 169
  • spiral, 293
  • Staples-Browne, R. C., 22
  • stars, 152
  • steam holes, cooking in, 165, 170 f.
  • storage of food, 160 f.; in pits, 195
  • sweet potatoes, see kumara