. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . st 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 naturally sur- movement that had yet been made. This passed the latter in initiative and native was the arrival of a large fleet of canoes, e
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . st 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 naturally sur- movement that had yet been made. This passed the latter in initiative and native was the arrival of a large fleet of canoes, energy. Moreover, the glorification of war the names of which have been preserved in as the noblest of occupations, as something tradition, and of which the occupants may to be sought for its own sake, fostered the be regarded, for all practical purposes, as the military spirit and rendered them fierce and, founders of the Maori nation. From that date at times, cruel and bloodthirsty. Family until the arrival of the European the settlers and racial pride was a marked characteristic NEW ZEALAND 71. Moodie, Dutudin. MAORI WOMEN AND ihe verandah ol a house. The group shows the variation in type of hair. of the aristocracy, but it was often accom-panied by a certain nobility of characterwhich would be praiseworthy in peoplesat the highest stage of civilisation. It will be noticed that in speaking of these people the past tense has been employed; this is because the march ofThe Maori -i- i- u- u i j of To-dav civilisation, which has proved less fatal to the Maori than therest of the Poljmesians, has practicallydestroyed all their ancient customs. In-deed, families of pure race are rare, mosthave at least a slight strain of white bloodin their veins. Their old industries havepractically vanished, and even their danceshave greatly deteriorated. Still, they have astake in the fortunes of the country, in-so-faras they send members to Parliament. Thewomen, however, unlike their w
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