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Powerhouse Museum Collection (website Powerhouse Museum )irn=227502&search=whale&site_id=3 > E1390 Whale tooth scrimshaw, sperm whale teeth (2), carver unknown, Australia, nineteenth century http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=228184&search=whale&site_id=3 > E4529-7 Whale tooth scrimshaw, ...
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and are even Converted into small adzes for Carving with, the Adze being their principal tool at all kinds of work. The length and Size of the War Canoes having been before described I shall proceed to describe their Construction and equipment. Each Canoe...
When they Tattow or Puncture the skin they dip the teeth of the Instrument into a Mixture of Soot (prepared from the Candle Nut) & Water, which being Struck in to the skin leaves the Mark of a Black or Blueish Collour. They also mark their feet, legs, th...
Index Search Contact us Buildings (continued) are in the greatest plenty they proceed together to the top of the Cliff, where bending their ropes together they make fast a stick of 18 or 20 inches long by the Middle and lower it over the face of the Cliff...
Index Search Contact us Relegion (continued) From the begining of the world and yet they are not diminished but others supply their places. Their traditions respecting the Creation are in many respects the same as we find in the Bible; they do not limit t...
Index Search Contact us Relegion (continued) This Morai is their principal place of Worship & Here only they offer Human Sacrafices. It was seized from o Too about 20 Years before our coming to the Island by Te towha Chief of Attahooroo, who had assisted...
On the Bow and top of the Stern are rude figures of Man for ornament the height of the bow, being somthing more then the level of the top of the Gunwhale, which is without sheer, and the height of the Stern nearly 24 feet, the Image being 18 inches or 2 f...
Index Search Contact us Buildings (continued) the Most part Covered with Cocoa nut trees which is all they Produce; they are the Property of o Toos Family who keeps the Inhabitants in subjection by keeping them from Planting the Breadfruit or other Trees ...
Index Search Contact us Relegous & other Customs (continued) Brother takes her; if He has no wife and should he have Issue by Her the Children are Calld by the Former Brothers Name, & take his estate; but should he have a Wife he keeps her at his house ti...
Index Search Contact us Division, Government &c. (continued) elective and evry Chief in the Society Isles becomes a Candidate. The Chiefs are Numerous and evry district has two or three besides others who reside as private Gentlemen on their own estates,...
If a Man wants to be Constantly Supplied with Fish He takes a Hog to a Fisherman and according to the size He agrees with the Fisherman to supply Him with Fish for one or more months, which they seldom fail to perform, Weather permitting for the stated ti...
Tarro, another Root which they Cultivate these grow in Water and the Ground must be leveled for that purpose & bankd up to keep the Water Constantly on it they Grow to 12 or 14 Inches long & as much round & are little inferior to Yams the root when dressd...
Index Search Contact us Manufactures & Trafic (continued) the Bark, a Board about a foot wide and two feet long to scrape it on a Beam of 8 inches Square and 10 or 12 feet long to beat it on, and Beetle of 21/2 or 3 inches square and 14 or 16 inches long ...
Index Search Contact us Division, Government &c. (continued) severe punishment, which accounts for the Women Calling the provisions on board Maa Raa (Sacred food) every thing on board being made sacred by his presence, yet nevertheless when they were righ...
When the People return homewards the Rahooe is taken off, that the Strangers may be suppld, who are nevertheless plentifully fed from the Neighbouring Districts where the Rahooe has not been put on. The Rahooe on the reefs is signified by placing Bushes a...
Index Search Contact us War (continued) and He Now entertains all the Deceaseds Relations, sumptuosly for Several days and they Declare that they [do not] Owe him any Grudge or animosity for killing their Relation and their Sorrow is now turnd to Joy and ...
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