PARIHAKA WAR DANCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13612, 4 December 1907, Page 6

PARIHAKA WAR DANCES.

THE OLD BARBARIC VIOLENCE. . , ':■';' ' [Br IELEGBASf?H.--OWN COERESPONMKT.J . ' [;'.■ \ W£ixiß«cxoK Tuesdff., Dr. Pom.uik, the native health offior, wlw has' been visiting Parihaka, 4tf<xu*4 « Dominion importer that the fined wt* dances in connection with the recent tMfi • took place on Monday of last weak, tlßtt,"-'. all the' p&kehas had left. - From the point, of view, tlieee Iwikas, danced bytbe Ngatiawa men, stripped practically : nik«d and in a frenzy of emotion, wer«'«i^ ; < _ ably impressive. ,Te Iki and. others of ; the ■ old chiefs led the movements, and the V natives flung themselves into' the old ibaW„;y« [ baric violence of excitement with m abandon that is seldom seen in modern xepreMentations of the kaka, and which could not be induced while the presence of inspecting -, '• pakehas reduced their efforts to the cheapness of a spectacle. '■ ,-' Dr. Pomare declares that the : hifctorw, performances before the Duke and Ducha»s of Cornwall and York, at Rotorua, *«* tame compared with this display..'' ft* -'f§ numbers at Parihaka were much smaller, , , but the force and 1 vehemence of the move-' menta were terrific. He had never sea dancing like it. :, The doctor states that tangi parties Iriil continue, visit Parihaka to mourn for 1* Whiti's death for the next three months ===== ■ '■ -,":. ■' ... ,■;, — - , ..;;■;'-■•' ... ■-..•■■■.'■ - -:- -- ; •. -: = i ■■-;:--:^-4-I'.«f».fc:i:*!!