Elaborate treachery is constantly met with in the accounts of their wars.

If adultery was rare, chastity among the single women was rarer still.
The affection of parents for young children was requited by no kindness on the part of youth for old age.

Carving never rose higher than grotesque decoration.

The attempts at portraying the human face or form resulted only in the monstrous and the obscene.
[Footnote 1: At any rate among the Ngatiporou tribe.] [Illustration: A MAORI MAIDEN Photo by ILES, Thames] The Maori men are as a rule tall and bulky, long-bodied and short-legged, and with fairly large pyramidal skulls, showing well-developed perceptive faculties.

Their colour varies from maize to dusky olive, and their features from classic to negroid; but usually the nose, though not flat, is wide, and the mouth, though not blubber-lipped, is heavy and sensual.