The Origin of the Maori Curve and Spiral - Chapter XIV — Polynesian Art: Carving and Tattooing - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(7) But the feature in which Maori carving art transcends all the rest of Polynesia is the use of the curve, and especially the spiral. In the bow and stern pieces of the canoes it is called by the natives pitau, the name for the centre frond of an edible tree-fern. And there it has indeed a stro...
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The Colossal-stone Record goes back Thousands — of Years - Chapter I — The Footprints of Primitive Man in — Monumental Stone - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(5) Now, of the records of this later or more rapidly progressive stone age none have been so enduring or impressive in effect on the imagination of cultivated man as the great unmortared stone monuments that have kept their heads erect through thousands of years in many parts of the world. They ...
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This Track passes from Japan over Micronesia and — Polynesia to the American Coast - Chapter I — The Footprints of Primitive Man in — Monumental Stone - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(7) As on the Atlantic coast of Europe , so on the Pacific coast of Asia, the path of these colossal monuments is not broken by the ocean. It continues into Japan as in the page 4 West it passes into the British Isles. But there was no endless archipelago to tempt the handlers of giant stones wes...
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It is the Medium Head of the Caucasian that follows — these Routes - Chapter II — The Meaning of the Colossal-Stone — Record - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(8) We need have no hesitation in saying that Caucasian migrations from Europe many thousands of years ago found their way into Micronesia and Polynesia, and thence to the Pacific coast of South and Central America, before the Mongol division of mankind had begun to feel the pressure of populatio...
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Chapter III — European-Like Races on the Colossal- — Stone Route - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(1) It is commonly accepted as a maxim that Asia and America are the domain of the Mongol and the Mongoloid, as Africa is the domain of the Negro. But, like most general-isations, it is conditioned by serious exceptions. Arabia and Asia Minor are altogether Semitic, and the Semites are Caucasians...
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Chapter IV — Traces of European-Like Peoples in — the Pacific - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(1) At the sea terminus of the Northern megalithic route there is a strikingly Caucasian people, the Ainos. Their features are exceptionally like the normal European, their faces oval, their eyes brown or greenish, deep set under fine brows, their nose large and straight with fine nostrils, their...
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Great Mixture of Peoples in the Islands to — the South - Chapter IV — Traces of European-Like Peoples in — the Pacific - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(4) Caucasian they must have been, and those of them that remained behind must have contributed to the European appearance of the Ainos. In the Loochoo Islands, Formosa, and the Philippines , which form the coastal stepping-stones, there are traces of light-complexioned peoples found even in page...
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The Spaniards found the Islanders of the Ladrones — and Carolines mixed, but seem to indicate a Fair — Race in the Blancos - Chapter IV — Traces of European-Like Peoples in — the Pacific - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(8) Even the Spaniards found on them very varied types of men. On the low coral islands were savages, whom they called Barbados and Pintados. On the high volcanic islands there were people marked by their tall stature, great strength, and fine intelligence, whom they call variously Hombres, Blanc...
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Clear Evidence of a Fair Race having been Absorbed — by the Polynesians - Chapter IV — Traces of European-Like Peoples in — the Pacific - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(12) But it is in Polynesia proper that most evidences of a primeval fair race have been gathered. Taken as a whole the islanders of this region have a singularly European appearance. What struck all the early voyagers was the fine faces and regular features of most of the islanders, and some of ...
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The Fairy Peoples of Maori Legend are all European- — like, and in all Countries Fairies are the Defeated — Aborigines - Chapter IV — Traces of European-Like Peoples in — the Pacific - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(14) A significant substitution by the Ureweras, when the urukehu are mentioned, is the word Turehu, which is used by the Maoris as almost interchangeable with Patupaiarehe in the sense of a fairy or beneficent supernatural being. The Turehu are also represented as an aboriginal people absorbed b...
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They Taught the Polynesian Immigrants Various — Arts - Chapter IV — Traces of European-Like Peoples in — the Pacific - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(18) And the legends seem to show that this has something to do with the marvellous new development of the primitive arts in New Zealand. Te Kanawa, a Maori chief, came across the fairies on the top of a mountain; and in his fear he put out all his greenstone and sharkstooth ornaments as a peace-...
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Traces of a Fair-haired Race in the Other Groups - Chapter IV — Traces of European-Like Peoples in — the Pacific - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(23) And, according to Dr. Wyatt Gill , a golden-haired child in Mangaia is called "the fair-haired progeny of Tangaroa," the great god of the sea, who himself was sandy-haired, and, having been driven out from the island, lived page 37 in distant lands with his fair-haired children. The Mangaian...
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An Ancient Mongoloid Empire in Mesopotamia - Chapter V — When did the Caucasians Migrate into the — Pacific; and When was the Pacific Closed - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(6) Now the ancient race that we know most of is the Akkadian, whose cuneiform inscriptions were unearthed on the site of Babylon during the latter half of the nineteenth century; their decipherment has thrown a flood of light on prehistoric times. And it is generally agreed that their civilisati...
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Bronze Defines Time Better - Chapter V — When did the Caucasians Migrate into the — Pacific; and When was the Pacific Closed - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(9) Bronze is different. It is as ornamental as copper, and it takes a much keener edge. It was sought after more eagerly by the neighbours of those primitive civilisations that discovered it. Many an experiment must have been made before an alloy could be found to remedy the defects of copper. B...
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Iron gives the Most Definite Time - Chapter V — When did the Caucasians Migrate into the — Pacific; and When was the Pacific Closed - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(11) A still stronger proof of the final closing of Polynesia to the peoples of the north-east of Asia is the complete absence of iron from that island region. When the Polynesians realised what a sharp edge the new metal introduced by the Europeans would take, they seized on it with avidity. The...
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The North-west Coast of America and Polynesia - Chapter VI — The North Pacific and the Polynesians - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(9) But the North Pacific on its American side shows most affinities with Polynesia. In the lacework of islands and fiords that frets the coast of British Columbia there live tribes that, though Americanised in their faces, are as different in ethnology from the American Indian as in appearance f...
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Pottery, Steam Cooking, and Stone Lamps - Chapter VI — The North Pacific and the Polynesians - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(14) Nor does the absence of pottery vessels account for the method of steam cooking, although this is a feature of both the regions that employ it, Polynesia and the British Columbian coast. The Ainos still, even when they have iron, make cooking-pots of cherry-tree bark, which boil their meat w...
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No Difficulty in the Seeming Racial Differences - Chapter VI — The North Pacific and the Polynesians - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(22) Nor need we be stopped from finding racial affinities by the strongly Mongolised appearance of the natives of the page 60 North-west American coast. That region, with the coast to the south, has been a cul-de-sac into which the American Indians of the plains have driven the defeated tribes o...
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Chapter VII — The Stratification of the Maori, as Seen in — his Customs - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(1) We have seen that there are traces of a fair race throughout the Pacific, and also traces of a race that erected great stone monuments. And we have seen reason to believe that the two are the same. Even though there may have been different migrations of them from the Japanese Archipelago, spr...
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The Treatment of Women most easily tests a — Civilisation - Chapter VII — The Stratification of the Maori, as Seen in — his Customs - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
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(5) In their attitude to women we observe the same contradiction in the Polynesian manners and customs that reveals the mingling of two different stages of culture. The women do not only all the household work, and especially the despised duty of cooking, but most of the field work, the raising a...
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