The Old-Time Maori
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- calabashes, 215
- carving, 293
- caves, 282
- chiffon head-dress, 26
- child, new-born, care of, 115
- child-birth, 112 f., 118
- childless woman, 120
- children, adopted, 51, 85; beliefs about, 122; care of, 133 f.; chief's, 153; clothing of, 137; deformed, 122; of divorced parents, 108; fair, 123; firstborn, 51; foster, 51; number and frequency of, 119 f.; teaching of, 135 f., 137, 147, 150; see also, boys, girls
- clearing ground for plantation, 179
- cloaks, feather, korowai, etc., 12; unfinished, 27; see also bride, groom
- Colocasia antiquorum, see taro
- communal nature of work, 183 f., 311
- Convolvulus sepium, see pohue
- Cook, Captain, 230
- cooking, 159 f.; not done in houses, 283
- Coraria ruscifolia, see tutu
- Cordyline australis, see tiipage 346
- Corynocarpus laevigata, see karaka
- courtship, successful, 78; unsuccessful, 79
- Crozet's Voyage, 23
- cultivation only where plants are put in, 190
- cultivations, number and extent of, 198 f.
- Cyathea medullaris, see mamaku
- Cyathoides acerosa, see tumingi