€5 Transactions. — MiscellaJieotis. 



Hoa = friend, mate, companion, also spouse. Taku hoa 

 wahiyie = my wife ; literally, " my female companion." 



Takakau — single person of either sex. 



Maro-nui — He loahine maro-nui = a married woman — a 

 woman with a large apron, literally. But only applied to 

 women who have been married according to tribal customs, 

 everything duly arranged, not to adulterous unions or mere 

 cohabiting. 



Makau = lover (male). Among some tribes it means 

 " spouse." 



Pouaru = widow, widower. 



Pani = orphan, widow. 



Moe = to sleep, also " marry." The term noho is also used 

 to denote marrying — Ka noho a Toi, ka noho i a te Kura. 



Ringa hoea = rejected hand. Applied sometimes to a 

 rejected suitor, but not used in that sense alone. 



BepcrejM = the buttocks (also tareperepe). Kai reperepe — 

 kai kotore (see ante). 



Eiveeive = blood relation. 



Moe tahaknra = to di'eam that one is in the company of a 

 person who is really dead, as one's late wife. 



Moe tahurangi — to dream that one is with an absent, but 

 living, woman, as one's sweetheart. 



Titoi = masturbation. 



Eegarding repudiation : At the present time when a man 

 wishes to repudiate his wife — and in most cases of separation 

 nowadays the cause is the husband's desire for another 

 woman — his elders try to patch the matter up and to 

 persuade him not to repudiate her. The blame in these 

 cases of separation is laid upon the one whose fault it was. 

 If the woman was in fault it will be said of her, " Oic mahi 

 o, te wahine tutua " (" Just like a low-born woman "). 



We have now come to the end of this paper, for the above 

 notes are all that I have collected on the subject of marriage 

 among the Tuhoe Tribe. There is much left unrelated, but 

 many most interesting facts in connection with Maori rites 

 and customs will never see the light, for the men of old took 

 the knowledge thereof with them when they lifted the old- 

 time trail to the setting sun in search of the Children of Pani. 



For a barbarous people, the Maori treated their women 

 well, and gave them considerable freedom and authority. Of 

 course, neither sex were overburdened with modesty : they 

 spoke openly of things which we only speak of in private or 

 not at all. It is difficult for us to examine these customs, 

 rites, superstitions, and ideas of a primitive people witli an 

 unprejudiced mind (if not quite impossible), but, could we do 

 80, the Maori system of arrangement of marriages would be 

 seen to be a very good one for a primitive and communistic 



