10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TITARAKURA»
Discover the use of
titarakura in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
titarakura and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Now our fresh-water fish have almost entirely disappeared. Makereti lists a
number of different fish species. The following species she lists as lake dwelling:
Inanga (Retropinna), Toitoi (Gobiomorphus gobioides, also called Titarakura and
...
2
The Journal of the Polynesian Society
The famous Tuhoean war god Te Rehu-o-Tainui was an atua kahu, which came
from a still born child which had been cast into a stream, and was eaten by the
small fish named titarakura. Hence that fish was possessed by the evil spirit, and
...
3
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Both it and the kokopu have decreased in numbers of late years. The papanoko
appears to be termed papane in the north. It was often caught by hand. The
titarakura, also known as tipokopoko, maruru, and tottoi (the latter is the Arawa
name), ...
When this embryo was buried it was enveloped in leaves in which some of the
small fresh-water fish called titarakura had been cooked, and hence, when the
spirit of the embryo achieved fame that species of fish became tapu, and could no
...
Dominion Museum (N.Z.), 1961
The titarakura, a small fish, is sometimes called titikura. Ngaio is the name of a
kind of worm, a parasite sometimes found in the kokopu fish. A similar parasite is
occasionally found in the kaka bird, which is in very poor condition at such a time.
Royal Society of New Zealand, 1910
6
Journal of the Polynesian Society
Titarakura, see Toitoi. Titikura, see Toitoi. Tohitohi, Galaxias brevipinnis (Ngati
Raukawa). Tohitohi, ff. small. Toiki, whaler shark, Eulamia brachyurus (Ngai Puhi
). Toitoi, Gobiomorphus gobioides. Syn. as above, Hawai, Mar- uru, Tipokopoko,
...
7
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Both it and the kokopu have decreased in numbers of late years. The papanoko
appears to be termed papane in the north. It was often caught by hand. The
titarakura, also known as tipokopoko, maruru, and toitoi (the latter is the Arawa
name), ...
New Zealand Institute, 1903
8
Maori religion and mythology : being an account of the ...
When this embryo was buried it was enveloped in leaves in which some of the
small fresh-water fish called titarakura had been cooked, and hence, when the
spirit of the embryo achieved fame that species of fish became tapu, and could no
...
9
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Both it and the kokopu have decreased in numbers of late years. The papanoko
appears to be termed papane in the north. It was often caught by hand. The
titarakura, also known as tipohopoko, maruru, and toitoi (the latter is the Arawa
name), ...
10
Memoirs of the Polynesian Society
... those leaves having previously been used as rautao, to cover an oven in which
a number of small fish called titarakura had been cooked. But, in some
unexplained manner, all fish of that species became so identified with the
powerful and ...
