. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ng—A Maori Part> —Dances—Cannibalism—Woman in War—Marriage Customs—The storv- of Tutanekai and Hinemoa T^HE natives of New Zealand, or Maori, lived in complete isolation, holding no corn-have been—at any rate as far as his- munication \vith the rest of Polynesia,torical times are concerned—Poly-nesians ; and though they have very much The Maori, speaking generally, very closelyin common with the inhabitants of the resembled the other Polynesians, yet there New Zealandand thePolynesians. isla
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ng—A Maori Part> —Dances—Cannibalism—Woman in War—Marriage Customs—The storv- of Tutanekai and Hinemoa T^HE natives of New Zealand, or Maori, lived in complete isolation, holding no corn-have been—at any rate as far as his- munication \vith the rest of Polynesia,torical times are concerned—Poly-nesians ; and though they have very much The Maori, speaking generally, very closelyin common with the inhabitants of the resembled the other Polynesians, yet there New Zealandand thePolynesians. islands to thenorth-west, theirculture, never-theless, exhibitssuch important peculiaritiesthat they demand a chapterto themselves. The date at which the firstrepresentatives of the Poly-nesian race arrived in theislands cannot, of course, bedetermined with accuracy;but one authority, drawinghis arguments from a mass oftribal tradition and historycollected in all parts of thePacific, believes it to havebeen about 850 At anyrate, it is comparatively cer-tain that during the years. .5^ Fhotn^yiiph by Miitr &• MoodU, Dttnediii MAORI GIRL. Seated by the central pillar ofthe verandah of a house. was considerable variation oftype amongst them, and the hair showed aPoints of ^ , resemblance tendency to and difference be= curliness (seetween the Maori p ^i^ • thevand Polynesians. ^ ? were also more finely built and moremuscular, probably as theresult of lives spent undermore strenuous psychological qualitieswere developed in a similardirection. Descended fromthose who must have beenthe hardiest and most ad-venturous of the Polynesianrace, living in a temperateclimate under circumstanceswhich required them to build 1250-1325, New Zealand was frequently more substantial houses, and to expend visited by Pol\mesians, and that about 1350 greater labour in cultivation than their took place the most extensive colonising relations further north, they natur
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