Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands: Including Descriptions of the Natural History and Scenery of the Islands : with Remarks on the History, Mythology, Traditions, Government, Arts Manners, and Customs of the Inhabitants ; in Two Volumes, Volume 2Fisher, Son & Jackson, 1829 - 576 pages |
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... TATAU . No person shall mark with tatau , it shall be entirely discontinued . It belongs to ancient evil customs . The man or woman that shall mark with tatau , if it be clearly proved , shall POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES . 435.
... TATAU . No person shall mark with tatau , it shall be entirely discontinued . It belongs to ancient evil customs . The man or woman that shall mark with tatau , if it be clearly proved , shall POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES . 435.
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... tatau , if it be clearly proved , shall be tried and punished . The punishment of the man shall be this - he shall make a piece of road ten fathoms long for the first marking , twenty ( fathoms ) for the second ; or , stone - work ...
... tatau , if it be clearly proved , shall be tried and punished . The punishment of the man shall be this - he shall make a piece of road ten fathoms long for the first marking , twenty ( fathoms ) for the second ; or , stone - work ...
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... tatau more sparingly than the men , and with greater taste . It was always the custom of the natives to go barefooted , and the feet , to an inch above the ankles , of the chief women , were often neatly tataued ; appearing as if they ...
... tatau more sparingly than the men , and with greater taste . It was always the custom of the natives to go barefooted , and the feet , to an inch above the ankles , of the chief women , were often neatly tataued ; appearing as if they ...
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... tatau , was only one of the preliminaries of their design ; and in this we were not mistaken . In the month of August , we heard that Taaroarii , with a number of those whom the chiefs had sentenced to labour on the public works , had ...
... tatau , was only one of the preliminaries of their design ; and in this we were not mistaken . In the month of August , we heard that Taaroarii , with a number of those whom the chiefs had sentenced to labour on the public works , had ...
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... tatau , but from an impatience of the restraint the laws imposed ; that they had merely selected that as a means of shewing their hostility to those laws , and their determination not to regard them ; that if they might be allowed ...
... tatau , but from an impatience of the restraint the laws imposed ; that they had merely selected that as a means of shewing their hostility to those laws , and their determination not to regard them ; that if they might be allowed ...
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Polynesian Researches: During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in ..., Volume 2 William Ellis Affichage d'extraits - 1967 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
aito appeared Areois attended Austral Islands body Borabora bread-fruit called canoes Captain Cook ceremony chapel chiefs Christ Christianity circumstances civilized cloth cocoa-nut colour connexion considered crime death deities desire district Divine dress dwelling effect Eimeo engaged erected father fathoms favour feet females fish formerly frequently friends furnished gods Huahine human sacrifice idolatry idols individual influence inhabitants judge jury kind king labour land laws Leeward Leeward Islands letters magistrate marriage mats ment Missionaries mountains murder nation native occasion offered Palliser Islands parties perhaps person Pomare Pomare III prayers present priest principal punishment raatiras Raiatea received reef regarded rendered resembling residence Rurutu Sabbath sacred Sandwich Islands Scripture seldom ship shore side singular society Society Islands sometimes South Sea Islands spear spirits station supposed Taaroa Tahaa Tahiti Tahitian tataued temple tion tree usually vessel warriors wife worship