Brighter Britain Or Settler And Maori in Northern New Zealand volume 2
Brighter Britain Or Settler And Maori in Northern New Zealand volume 2
Hay William Delisle
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The number of half-breed children occasionally seen about a kainga, show the easy way in which certain Pakeha have fallen in with Maori customs. But tapu provided a marriage law of singular stringency. So soon as a girl was> married, nay, merely betrothed, no more license for her. She was tapu to her husband, and if the terrors of the unseen world should not be enough to keep her in the straight path, death was the penalty for the slightest deviation therefrom. She was the slave as well as the ...wife of her lord, and this continued until, and sometimes even after, his death, unless he should permit a sort of formal divorce. MAORI MANNERS. 107 The person of an ariki was highly tapu. The sublime essence rested, if anywhere, most particularly in his head. His hair might not be cut or dressed without the observance of most formal etiquette. It was a fearful breach of tapu to pass anything over or above his head. Any man was tapu, or unclean, if he were wounded, sick, or undergoing the moku.
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