 | 1824 - 564 páginas
...moderate, and the head is baked or steamed until all the moisture, which is frequently wiped away, is exuded ; after which it is left in a current of air until perfectly" dry.' (P. S0.) The New Zealanders are a remarkably well-proportioned and fine race of people, the men standing... | |
 | 1823 - 704 páginas
...married to the destroyer of her parent. The method of preserving -heads, after decapitation, is curious. "When the head has been separated from the body, and...nor have they since shown any symptoms of decay." P. 50. Our author frequently speaks of large flocks of wild ducks, occurring in these parts, while... | |
 | 1824 - 610 páginas
...and covered over with earth. The temperature is very moderate, and the head is baked or steamed till all the moisture, which is frequently wiped away,...as perfect as in life ; nor have they since shown symptoms of decay." The New Zealanders, however, notwithstanding their savage customs and brutal appetites,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - 582 páginas
...extended to the preservation of the whole human body, after removing the intestines, is thus described. ' When the head has been separated from the body, and...and teeth were as perfect as in life ; nor have they ever since shown any symptoms of decay. ' The custom of preserving heads is universal among these islanders.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 páginas
...extended to the preservation of the whole human body, after removing the intestines, is thus described. ' When the head has been separated from the body, and...and teeth were as perfect as in life ; nor have they ever since shown any symptoms of decay. 'The custom of preserving heads is universal among these islanders.... | |
 | Richard Alexander Cruise - 1921 - 170 páginas
...door, through which the chief could creep with some difficulty. The huts of his people were smaller. He now produced two human heads, in the same state...decay. The custom of preserving heads is universal among the Maoris. They bring them back from their wars, in the first instance, as a trophy, and, in... | |
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When the head has been separated from the body, and the whole of the interior of it extracted, it is rolled up in leaves, and put into a kind of oven, made of heated stones laid in a hole in the ground, and covered over with earth. The temperature is... 