Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 150.—Figure of a Maori chief wearing garments of woven flax, on his head two huia feathers, and round his neck a jade tiki. In his hand is the weapon called hani or taiaha. New Zealand.
the arts of invention and manufacture. Thus physically, intellectually and culturally they stand at the head of the Polynesian peoples. The clothes of the Maori were made almost entirely of flax
PLATE IX.
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Jade neck-ornaments (Tiki) from New Zealand. The largest example born the name Ko-Wakatere Kohu Kohu and belonged to the chief Honi Heke. [Face p. 172
POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS 173
carefully prepared and woven to form a variety of cloth known as 'tied-cloth' (fig. 150). The two principal garments were a skirt and a cloak, and the latter varied greatly in pattern and quality, some being entirely covered with feathers of the moa or kiwi ; others with a long nap of reeds or flax stems were used as protection against rain, and cloaks made of dog skins were also found. A variety of ornaments, sharks' or human teeth, jade and whale-ivory pendants, bird skins, were worn in the ears, and a grotesque figure (tiki) of jade or a whale's tooth round the neck ; these jade figures are especially characteristic and were highly valued as heirlooms in the family to which they belonged (Pl. IX, and fig. 151).

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