It was the tohunga, the priestly scholar, who carried in his head, and passed on to his pupils, the lineage of the chief, and tribal history. He could repeat these back through hundreds of years,

Both men and women were of fine physique and handsome features — they were people of high intelligence, courage and initiative, with a great love and appreciation of nature; because of these attributes they evolved into a nation of orators, singers, carvers of great skill, weaver

The Maoris differ from most other races in that it is the old women, not the men, who seem to be the medical practitioners. These wise women are now a dying race, and though memory is listed in Maori carvings as a cardinal virtue, the impact of a technological age, in which the M

-The loving care and high order of intelligence shown by these customs should fire us with a great admiration for those mothers, who had only primitive materials to work with, especially as we know that the infant death rate was very low and malformed limbs and imbecility very ra