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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] More Maori images from 100 years ago: Maori making cloak [IMG]http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-25405&profile=access[/IMG] http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=25405&recordNum=29&f=subjectid%245751&l=en [IMG]http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-5761&profile=access[/IMG] http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=5761&recordNum=0&f=subjectid%245751&l=en [IMG]http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-7371&profile=access[/IMG] http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=7371&recordNum=2&f=subjectid%245751&l=en [IMG]http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-28686&profile=access[/IMG] http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=28686&recordNum=3&f=subjectid%245751&l=en [IMG]http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-7040&profile=access[/IMG] http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=7040&recordNum=6&f=subjectid%245751&l=en [IMG]http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-23264&profile=access[/IMG] http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=23264&recordNum=12&f=subjectid%245751&l=en [IMG]http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-36557&profile=access[/IMG] http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=36557&recordNum=19&f=subjectid%245751&l=en All from the National Library of New Zealand: http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/?l=en A book that discusses the "types" of original Maori showing the nonsense racial classifications used by whites to separate populations in the Pacific by skin color. Of course Polynesian in this scheme always means creamy colored mulatto or white, with Melanesian obviously meaning black and the former being identified as superior to the latter. This notwithstanding the fact that when Europeans first arrived in the Islands, most of the populations WERE primarily black, with a wide range of features among them. [QUOTE] As members of the far-spread Polynesian race, the Maori folk of New Zealand are found on enquiry to have preserved the leading characteristics of that people. Leading features of such peculiarities are a stalwart physique and a high order of intelligence. To judge the Maori, or his brethren of northern isles, by the general state of backwardness in which they lived, by their somewhat primitive arts and artifacts, would assuredly be a misjudgment. It was here that Morgan erred when he placed the Polynesians in the lowest existing state of savagery, and indeed on the same culture plane as that of the natives of Australia. Evidence given in the following chapter will be sufficient to lift the Maori from such companionship. A very marked feature in the physical attributes of the Maori is noted in the many Melanesian affinities in evidence, showing that the Maori must have intermarried with those dark-skinned folk, probably since he left the sunlit isles of Eastern Polynesia. In the frequent occurrence of the darkskin colour, thick, protruding lips, flat nose, wide nostrils, and frizzy hair, we find proofs of a Melanesian admixture. This fact is also supported by an examination of the head form of our local natives. In a paper contributed to Vol. XXXVI. of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, Dr. J. H. Scott gives the results of an examination of a series of eighty-three Maori skulls. He remarks:—“We know the Maori to be a mixed race, the result of a mingling of a Polynesian and a Melanesian strain. The crania already examined leave no room for doubt on this point.” He also shows that the average or typical Maori skull occupies the lower limit of the mesaticephalic group. Of the skulls examined, forty-three per cent. were dolichocephalic. Further on he writes:—“If any further proof were needed of the mixed origin of the Maori race it is given in this paper. An examination of the cranial indices, and of the extent of their variation, shows this clearly. [b]These demonstrate two distinct types and intermediate forms. At the one extreme we have skulls approaching the Melanesian, as met with in the Fiji group, long and narrow, high in proportion to their breadth, pragnathous, and with wide nasal openings. At the other skulls of the Polynesian type, such as are common in Tonga and Samoa, shorter and broader, with orthognathous faces. And it must be noted that these extreme forms do not belong to different tribes, or districts, but may both be found in one.”[/b] Now, in view of our latest information as to the original inhabitants of these islands, the above remarks, as also the following passage, are of much interest. “The Melanesian characteristics are therefore more accentuated in the North than amongst the natives of the South Island. The prevalence of the Papuan form among skulls from the Bay of Islands has also been observed by M. M. de Quatrefages and Hamy.” Dr. Scott also notes the fact that the teeth in the skulls examined by him had the whole crowns ground away, but that he never detected any sign of dental caries. The present writer has noticed the same peculiarity in many old native skulls seen in caves and hollow trees, where they had been deposited after the exhumation of the bones of the tribal dead. It is quite possible that some of the statements made by Dr. Scott will have to be modified when the results of the more extensive researches now being made by Dr. P. H. Buck are published. The accounts preserved in oral tradition of the peculiarities of the original native folk of New Zealand, portray them as a dark-skinned folk of inferior culture. They had bushy heads of hair, flat faces, side glancing eyes, flat noses and spreading nostrils; “the nostrils seemed to be all the nose they had,” states one account. They were of spare build, and were an indolent, shiftless, chilly folk who complained of the coldness of the climate. They were found in occupation of the more northern parts of the North Island only, from Taranaki and the Bay of Plenty northward. None had settled in the South Island. If these were not a Melanesian folk, then they must have possessed strong Melanesian characteristics. A tradition among them explains that they were the descendants of the occupants of three drift canoes that had been carried from their home land by a westerly gale. All these particulars tend to support the conclusions of Dr. Scott. It may also be mentioned that a number of early voyagers and sojourners in this land mention the Melanesian element so strongly in evidence here. Another item of evidence, and withal a curious one, concerns an old native custom. Missionary Yates and other early writers have told us that the Maori mothers were in the habit of flattening the noses of their infants by means of pressure. This peculiar custom would not have originated among the purer, straight-nosed Polynesians; one can but think that it dates back to the flat-nosed aboriginal women who were taken to wife by the early Polynesian settlers on these shores. It is quite possible that a certain amount of mixture with Melanesians has taken place here in later times. In the Bay of Plenty district a tradition has been preserved to the effect that, about four hundred years ago, a canoe made the land at Whakatane, having come from over sea. Probably it was a drift voyage, but the interesting part is that the newcomers are said to have been black men. They settled among the Awa folk at Meheu, or Omeheu, on the Rangitaiki River. Yet another interesting subject on which much might be said is the fact that, among our Maori folk exist certain arts, customs, institutions and artifacts that are unknown in Polynesia, but which are known in Melanesia. Thus the well-known curvilinear decorative art of the Maori finds no counterpart in Polynesia, but something much resembling it exists in New Guinea. The fortified villages of New Zealand, with stockades, fighting stages, and massive earthworks, were unknown in Polynesia. At Tonga alone was something of the kind seen in that area, a result of intercourse with Fiji, where, on Viti-levu, such fortified villages were numerous. These are but examples of many such striking parallels. [/QUOTE]Quote: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Bes01Maor-t1-body-d1.html An example of the so called "Melanesian" Maori type: [IMG]http://www.nzetc.org/etexts/Bes01Maor/Bes01Maor002a.jpg[/IMG] http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/Bes01Maor-fig-Bes01Maor002a.html Again, this document reflects the fact that since Europeans have arrived in the Pacific they have tried to make a FALSE separation between Eastern and Western Pacific populations purely based on their own nonsense racial paradigms and not on facts. However, even with the overt racial propaganda they themselves make the point that much of what is so-called Polynesian culture actually originates in Melanesia and the sculpture and carvings they reference are those of the populations of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. These things drive home the point that Eastern Pacific populations were not separate from those of the Western pacific and most of the claims of such a separation are purely based on European "scientific" racial dogma than anything else. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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