The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920

ri Society-

utline of the daily life of the Mao

more or less closely inter-related, and governed according to various customary usages by their hereditary ch

eir "tohungas," or priests, the priesthood being

p trenches and draw-bridges. Every hill-top, headland or loca

eum). The chieftains had their residential quarters in the citadel of the villages; whilst the great mass of the tribe

slopes surrounding the villages, and were usually s

kept in store-houses within each village. To become "short of supplies" was a reflection upon

deed the "staff of life," and its cultivation occupied much of the time and industry of the pe

sea, and the hunters to the forest. Other men were engaged in the building of houses or canoes, in which the art of the carver was utilised, or in the mak

. The whole idea pervading the community was the public weal, and each indiv

closed, and sentries were posted on the parapets. By their watch-songs and calls

itors with dancing, songs and folk-tales of ancestral doings. Such rela

re in remote places of the forests of Waitakerei, or other secluded localities. Of the many other aspects of ancient Maori social economy, religious

social status of the people in those ancient times