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English: PLATE XXXVI.
A NATIVE FEAST AT MATA-TA. MOUNT EDGECUMBE IN THE DISTANCE. ON all great occasions, it is customary with the New Zealanders to hold feasts, many of which are on a large scale, and continue for days and even weeks together. At such periods as these, the neighbouring tribes are invited to join in the general festivity, and the war dance is performed at intervals during the feast. The quantity of food that is wasted at these meetings, (which are called hui), is almost incredible; and the consequence frequently is, that the unlimited profusion of the feast is followed by a season of scarcity amongst those tribes by whom the entertainment is given. The provisions usually consist of dried shark and pigs, with enormous baskets of potatoes and kumeras; these latter are planted in large quantities in anticipation of the hui, and at the time of my visit to the celebrated Te Wero-wero, about one thousand of his people were engaged in planting kumeras in the grounds at Whata-whata, preparatory to a great feast which that chief intended to give to all the Waikato tribes in the ensuing summer. |
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Angas, George French 1822-1886: The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847. http://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/document?wid=2416 |
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