ON THE 



MAORI RACES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



By WILLIAM COLENSO, F.L.S. 



[^Written for the Neto Zealand Exhibition, 1865.] 



1. Colour. 



2. Height ; shape. 

 [ 3. Physiognomy ; head. 



4. Hail". 



5. Health ; constitution ; teeth. 



ANALYSIS. 



I. Physiologicai,. 

 1. Individual. 



6. Sensorial faculties. 



7. Puberty ; natural selection ; number of 

 children. 



8. Malformations ; albinos. 



9. Diseases. 



2. Social. 



10. Ordinary habits ; of men ; of women. 



11. Modes of obtaining subsistence ; food 



plentiful. 



(1.) Fishing. 

 (2.) Bird-snaring, &c. 

 (3.) CultiTations. 



(4.) Wild fruits and vegetable sub- 

 stances. 



12. Division of labour. 



13. Architecture. 



14. Canoe building. 



15. Manufactures — 



(1.) Textile. 



(2.) Implements of agriculture and 

 of war ; tools and various ves- 

 sels. 



(8.) Stone implements and mechani- 

 cal apphances. 



16. Ornaments ; musical instruments ; carv- 



ings. 



17. Barter, &c. 



18. Ordinary events — 



(1.) Birth, &c. 

 (2.) Betrothal. 

 (3.) "Naming." 



(4.) Tattooing, &c. 

 (5.) Marriage. 

 (6.) Polygamy and divorce. 

 (7.) Death ; lamentations ; burial. 

 (8.) Exhumation ; cleaning of bones ; 

 desecration. 



19. Distinctions of rank. 



(1.) Free. 

 (2.) Slave. 



20. Property. 



(1.) Private right. 

 (i.) Definite, 

 (ii.) Indefinite, 

 (iii.) Inheritance, 

 (iv.) Succession, 

 (v.) Usufructuary, 

 (vi.) Pecuhar. 

 (2.) Common. 



21. Treatment of diseases ; surgery; poison- 



ing. 



22. Acquired habits. 



23. Drinks. 



24. Mastieatories. 



25. Fondness for children and pets. 



26. Games and diversions. 



II. Psychological. 



27. Intellectual and moral faculties. 



(1.) Intellectual. 

 (2.) Moral. 



28. Natural propensities. 



(1.) Good. 

 (2.) Bad. 



29. Yices. 



30. Esthetics. * 



31. Acquirements. 



32. Germs of the principles of mechanics. 



33. Colours. 



34. Courtesy and etiquette. 



35. Sentiments and feelings. 



(1.) Sentiments. 

 (2.) Feehngs. 



36. The tmhoo (tapu). 



37. Credulity ; dreams ; omens 



sorcery, &c. 



38. Keligion. 



39. Death; the JReing a (Sades). 



ghosts 



