w Zealand women are
required to submit to.

Rutherford's account is that they have a figure tattooed on the chin
resembling a crown turned upside down; that the inside of their lips is
also tattooed, the figures here appearing of a blue colour; and that
they have also a mark on each side of the mouth resembling a
candlestick, as well as two stripes about an inch long on the forehead,
and one on each side of the nose. Their decorations of this description,
as well as of the other sex, are no doubt different in different parts
of the country.

"With respect to the amocos," says Cook in his First Voyage, "every
different tribe seemed to have a different custom; for all the men in
some canoes seemed to be almost covered with it, and those in others had
scarcely a stain, except on the lips, which were black in all of them,
without a single exception."

Rutherford states that in the part of the country where he was, the men
were commonly tattooed on their face, hips, and bodies, and some as low
as the knee. None were allowed to be tattooed on the forehead, chin, and
upper lip, except the very greatest among the chiefs. The more they are
tattooed, he adds, the more they are honoured. The priests, Savage says,
have only a small square patch of tattooing over the right eye.

These stains, although their brilliancy may perhaps decay with time,
being thus fixed in the flesh, are of course indelible, just as much as
the marks of a similar nature which our own sailors frequently make on
their arms and breasts, by introducing gunpowder under the skin. One
effect, we are told, which they produce on the countenances of the New
Zealanders, is to conceal the ravages of old age. Being thus permanent
when once imprinted, each becomes also the peculiar distinction of the
individual to whom it belongs, and is probably sometimes employed by him
as his mark or sign manual. An officer belonging to the "Dromedary," who
happened to have a coat of arms engraved on his seal, was frequently
asked by the New Zealanders if the device was his "amoco." When the
missionaries purchased a piece of land from one of the Bay of Islands
chiefs, named Gunnah,[X] a copy of the tattooing on the face of the
latter, being drawn by a brother chief, was affixed to the grant as his
signature; while another native signed as a witness, by adding the
"amoco" of one of his own cheeks.

[Illustration: _Moko_ on woman's lips and chin.

_Moko_ on man's face.

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