 ... character. The priests, and others, were fearlessly ridiculed in these performances, in which allusion was ludicrously made to public events. In the taupiti, or oroa, they sometimes engaged in wrestling, but never in boxing ; that would have been...  Wild Life in Southern Seas - Page 43by Louis Becke - 1897 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1829 - 574 pages
...never in boxing ; that would have been considered too degrading for them. Dancing, however, appears to have been their favourite and most frequent performance....bodies, blackened with charcoal, and stained with mat i, rendered the exhibition of their persons on these occasions most disgusting. They often maintained... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1831 - 448 pages
...never in boxing ; that would have been considered too degrading for them. Dancing, however, appears to have been their favourite and most frequent performance....accompanied by their voices, and the music of the flute and the drum. These amusements frequently continued for a number of days and nights successively at the... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1831 - 446 pages
...never in boxing ; that would have been considered too degrading for them. Dancing, however, appears to have been their favourite and most frequent performance....accompanied by their voices, and the music of the flute and the drum. These amusements frequently continued for a number of days and nights successively at the... | |
 | James Cook - Voyages and travels - 1842 - 644 pages
...considered too degrading for them. Dancing, however, appears to have been their favourite and moat frequent performance. In this they were always led...accompanied by their voices, and the music of the flute and the drum. These amusements frequently continued for a number of days and nights successively at the... | |
 | Mervyn McLean - Music - 1999 - 562 pages
...to have been usual: the missionary William Ellis refers to the Arioi as maintaining the 'HfJit'ItpiI dance 'through the greater part of the night, accompanied by their voices, and the music of the flute and the drum.'12 Drums Cook's astronomer, William Wales, saw three different sizes of drum in The Base... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, Nicholas Thomas - History - 2000 - 394 pages
...never in boxing; that would have been considered too degrading for them. Dancing, however, appears to have been their favourite and most frequent performance....accompanied by their voices, and the music of the flute and the drum. These amusements frequently continued for a number of days and nights successively at the... | |
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