 | William Ellis - 1829 - 574 pàgines
...very weak until nearly twelve months old. The Tahitian parents and nurses were careful in observing the features of the countenance, and the shape of...aspect, when they should become warriors. They were very careful to kaune, or shave, the child's head with a shark's tooth. This must have been a tedious,... | |
 | William Ellis - 1833 - 342 pàgines
...forehead and the back of the head of the boys were pressed upwards, so that the \ipper part of the scull appeared in the shape of a wedge. This, they said,...although every idolatrous ceremony connected with the treatmen of their children has been discontinued for a number of years, the mothers are still very... | |
 | William Ellis - 1853 - 904 pàgines
...to sit up, the child was not, when taken out, carried in the arms, so as to rest on the bosom, but nursed or carried at the side, seated on the hip of...should become warriors. They were then careful to hatme, or shave, the child's head with a shark's tooth. This must have been a tedious, and sometimes... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 pàgines
...a mark of beauty. In the same way the boys sometimes had their forehead and the back of their head pressed upwards, so that the upper part of the skull appeared in the shape of a wedge. This was supposed to make them look more formidable in war. J „ The dead were not buried at once, but... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1872 - 696 pàgines
...a mark of beauty. In the same way the boys sometimes had their forehead and the back of their head pressed upwards, so that the upper part of the skull appeared in the * Since the above was written, I moment my dinner or breakfast was have met with the following passage... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1873 - 712 pàgines
...Polynesian! Nevertheless, in Tahiti at least, it was at one time universal among the males (p. Is). " The forehead and the back of the head of the boys...of their aspect, when they should become warriors." Hospitality is not the feature which is least prominent or pleasant in the savage, and We have already... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1889 - 884 pàgines
...of the females, as a flat nose was considered by them a mark of beauty." (Vol. I, p. 343.) In Tahiti "the forehead and the back of the head of the boys...said, was done to add to the terror of their aspect." (Vol. i, p. 343.) In general remarks on the "South Sea Islanders," ie, natives of the Georgian, Society,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1889 - 870 pàgines
...of the females, as a flat nose was considered by them a mark of beauty." (Vol. I, p. 343.) In Tahiti "the forehead and the back of the head of the boys...said, was done to add to the terror of their aspect." (Vol. I, p. 343.) In general remarks on the "South Sea Islanders," t. «., natives of the Georgian,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1900 - 748 pàgines
...a mark of beauty. In the same way the boys sometimes had their forehead and the back of their head pressed upwards, so that the upper part of the skull appeared in the shape of ii wedge. This was supposed to make them look more formidable in war.f The dead were not buried at... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1889 - 870 pàgines
...of the females, as a flat nose was considered by them a mark of beauty." (Vol. I, p. 343.) In Tahiti "the forehead and the back of the head of the boys...said, was done to add to the terror of their aspect." (Vol. i, p. 343.) In general remarks on the "South Sea Islanders," ie, natives of the Georgian, Society,... | |
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The forehead and the back of the head, of the boys, were pressed upwards, so that the upper part of the skull appeared in the shape of a wedge. This, they said, was done, to add to the terror of their aspect, when they should become warriors. 