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