...forbidden to be used by the females. The baskets in which their provision was kept, and the houses in which the men ate, were also sacred, and prohibited...baskets, and eaten in lonely solitude by the females, in mean huts, resembling dog-kennels, when compared with the habitations of the men. The tabu, one of...

...variety of fish, cocoa-nuts, and plantains, and whatever was presented as an offering to the gods : these the females, on pain of death, were forbidden to touch...each other, referred also to this degraded condition K of the females. E taha mitt noa oe no, to medua, Mayest thou become a bottle, to hold salt water...

...variety of fish, cocoa-nuts, and plantains, and whatever was presented as an offering to the gods : these the females, on pain of death, were forbidden to touch...females, in little huts erected for the purpose. The most orFensive and frequent imprecations which the men were accustomed to use towards each other, referred...

...same cruel penalty. Hence, the inferior food, both for wives, daughters, &c. was cooked at scparate fires, deposited in distinct baskets, and eaten in...referred also to this degraded condition of the females. Etalia miti noa oe no to medua: Mayest thoii become a bottle, to hold salt water for thy mother! or...

...forbidden to be used by the females. The baskets in which their provision was kept, and the houses in which the men ate, were also sacred, and prohibited...baskets, and eaten in lonely solitude by the females, in mean huts, resembling dog-kennels, when compared with the habitations of the men. The tabu, one of...

...the men's food was cooked were also sacred, and were forbidden to be used by the females. The basket in which their provision was kept, and the house in...females, in little huts erected for the purpose." "The character of the islanders," says Ellis in describing the Society Islands, Raiatea and Huahine, " presents...

...forbidden to be used by the females. The baskets in which their provision was kept, and the houses in which the men ate, were also sacred, and prohibited...baskets, and eaten in lonely solitude by the females, in mean huts, resembling dog-kennels, when compared with the habitations of men. The tabu, one of the...

...variety of fish, cocoa-nuts, and plantains, and whatever was presented as an offering to the gods : these the females, on pain of death, were forbidden to touch...each other, referred also to this degraded condition K of the females. E taha miti noa oe na to medua, Mayest thou become a bottle, to hold salt water for...

...among the natives of the Pacific islands, where " the inferior food, both for wives, daughters, etc., was cooked at separate fires, deposited in distinct...solitude by the females, in little huts erected for the purpose."f The cruel treatment by the Australian aborigines of their sick has its counterpart among...

...Australia, vol. ii. p. 217. * Polynesian Researches, vol. ip 222. The baskets in which their provisions were kept, and the house in which the men ate, were also...eaten in lonely solitude by the females, in little tuts erected for the purpose.' ' Nothing,' says the Bishop of Wellington, ' can be more mistaken than...