eanness, 173;
signified by white cloth, 344;
in the Marquesas, 345 _sqq._;
a definition of, 348;
in Hawaii, 387 _sqq._;
breaches of, punished with death, 389;
abolished in Hawaii, 389 _sq._;
rigour of, 416;
an aristocratic institution, 432

Tabooed priest, 404

Taboos imposed by chiefs, 175, 432

Tahaa, one of the Society Islands, 246, 258

Tahiti, 246, 247, 255, 266, 279, 282, 283, 314, 321;
_morais_ in, 116 _sqq._, 279 _sqq._

_Tahowa_, priest, 293

Tahuata (Santa Christina), one of the Marquesas, 349, 359, 360, 364,
367

Taipii (Typee), valley of, in Nukahiva, 360, 365

Taipiis or Typees, a tribe of Nukahiva, 330, 332, 365, 373

Tairi (Kaili), the national war-god of Hawaii, 396, 397, 404, 411

Takalaua, a Tooitonga, 108

Tali-y-Toobo, Tongan god of royal family, 70, 73, 77, 79, 121

Tame gods, 191

Tamehameha, king of Hawaii, 384, 423.
_See_ Kamehameha

Tanaroa, Tangaroa, Tagaloa, Taaroa, dialectically different names of
a great Polynesian god, 258, 392

Tane (Tani), a great Polynesian god, 35 _n._, 241, 258, 280, 284, 293,
392, 394, 397

Tane-kio, a god, enshrined in the planets Venus and Jupiter, 228

Tangaloa, god, drew up Tonga Islands on a fishing-hook, 65, 72 _sq._;
god of artificers, 72;
puts god Hikuleo in durance, 88;
ancestor of Tui-ta-tui, 127;
temple of, 196;
principal god of Samoans, the creator, 202 _sq._;
said to have fished up the islands, 202, 203

Tangaroa, god of ocean, 35 _n._;
a great god, brother of Rongo, 226

_Tapu_. _See_ Taboo

Taro the staple food of the Samoans, 165;
of the Mangaians, 222;
and of the Hawaiians, 378

Tattooing, not applied to the Tooitonga, 81;
nor to the sacred kings of Mangaia, 224;
as a punishment in Samoa, 160;
of the Marquesan islanders, 331 _sq._;
marks of, removed from corpse, 368;
of the Hawaiians, 378;
of the tongue in mourning, 421

_Tauas_, inspired men, 350 _sq._

Tauata (Santa Christina), one of the Marquesas Islands, 337

Taylor, R., 7 _n._^1, 32 _n._^1, _n._^2, 36, 42

_Tee_, _teehee_, _tii_, spirit of the dead, guardian spirit, 313, 322,
323 _n._^1

Teeth, loss of, penalty for breach of taboo, 209 _sq._;
knocked out in mourning, 231, 420, 423, 424

Tekuraaki, a god, incarnate i