Women of All Nations: A Record of Their Characteristics, Habits, Manners, Customs and Influence, Bind 1Thomas Athol Joyce, Northcote Whitridge Thomas Cassell, Limited, 1908 - 772 sider |
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aboriginal Admiralty Islands Africa Australian baby bark baskets beads beauty betrothed body Borneo bride bridegroom Caledonia ceremony chief child civilisation cloth coco-nut colour cooking costume courtesy curious custom dance decorated dress Dunedin ears European father feast female fibre Fiji Fijian fish flowers girdle girl hair hand head Hebrides husband Igorot important influence islands J. F. Lister Java kava Kelantan labour leaves magic Malay Malayan male Maori marriage married mats matter Melanesian mother Muir & Moodie Narran River native neck necklace nose old women ornaments Pandanus paper mulberry parents petticoat Photograph by Muir piece plaited Polygyny Polynesian position race rank round Samoan Sarawak sarong savage scarification shell Showing sister skin Solomon Solomon Islands sometimes Tahiti tapa tapu tattoo taupou teeth tion Tongan tribes Tutanekai usually village waist wear wedding widow wife wives woman worn young
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Side 23 - They talk about a woman's sphere. As though it had a limit; There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mankind given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper, Yes or No, There's not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it.
Side 76 - ... or other provisions. In the time of year when the crops did not call for their attention, when they were planted and growing, then the whole tribe would remove to some fortified hill, at the side of some river, or on the coast, where they would pass months, fishing, making nets, clubs, spears, and implements of various descriptions ; the women, in all spare time, making mats for clothing, or baskets to carry the crop of kumera in, when fit to dig. There was very little idleness ; and to be called...
Side 48 - They were a sort of strolling players, and privileged libertines, who spent their days in travelling from island to island, and from one district to another, exhibiting their pantomimes, and spreading a moral contagion throughout society.
Side 55 - ... invention, but added that it would not at all do for the Tonga Islands; that there would be nothing but disturbances and conspiracies, and he should not be sure of his life perhaps another month. He said, however...
Side 60 - Who ever heard of winter upon our shores ? When was it so cold that the labourer could not go to his field ? Where among us shall we find the numberless drawbacks which in less favoured countries the working classes have to contend with ? They have no place in our beautiful group, which rests on the swelling bosom of the Pacific like a water-lily,'— p.
Side 42 - ... four fathoms long and two wide ; if not this, he shall do some other work for the king. This shall be the woman's punishment — she shall make two large mats, one for the king, and one for the governor ; or four small mats, for the king two, and for the governor two. If not this, native cloth, twenty fathoms long, and two wide ; ten fathoms for the king, and ten for the governor.
Side 52 - Navigator's islands, of the finest texture, and as soft as silk : so many of these costly mats were wrapped round her, perhaps more than forty yards, that her arms stuck out from her body in a ludicrous manner ; and she could not, strictly speaking, sit down, but was obliged to bend in a sort of half-sitting posture, leaning upon her female attendants, who were under the necessity of again raising her when she required it.
Side 4 - Europeans, and call them in their language 'tomahawk noses,' much preferring their own style of flat broad noses."6 The Tahitians frequently said to Mr. Williams, " What a pity it is that English mothers pull the children's noses so much, and make them so frightfully long ! " 7 We admire white teeth and rosy cheeks ; but a servant of the king of Cochin China spoke with contempt of the wife of the English ambassador, because she had white teeth like a dog and a rosy colour like that of 1 Cook, 'Voyage...
Side 110 - If one half of this species, the maternal half, in addition to many natural weaknesses, had been from the first the victim of malicious imposition and persecution at the hands of the other and stronger half, humanity would not have survived.
Side 83 - Yes'; and she rose up in the water as beautiful as the wild white hawk, and stepped upon the edge of the bath as graceful as the shy white crane; and he threw garments over her and took her, and they proceeded to his house, and reposed there; and thenceforth, according to the ancient laws of the Maori, they were man and wife.