White. — On the Ceremony of Eahui. 361 



Sup'plementary Notes. 



Titi (the setting-up) o (of) kurcu (the tiaha, or ornamental 

 staff painted with red-ochre as a sign of tapu ; or the tiaha, 

 coloured red by feathers of that sacred colour). Tiaha, from 

 tia, " to stick in," " to drive in a peg or stake," also "feathers 

 stuck in for ornament," " to place feathers in the hair" ; and 

 the suffix ha, " the agent, or one who has or does a thing" : 

 giving, in full, tia-ha, " one having ornament of feathers." 

 These red feathers may have been the sacred emblem of 

 the staff. (See Tregear's " Maori-Polynesian Comparative 

 Dictionary" for " painted staff " : Kura, No. 4.) 



Bahui, either two distinct words or a word having widely 

 differing meanings : Bahui, " a flock or herd of birds or other 

 living objects," and rahui, "a ceremony of tapu." I take 

 the aforesaid message to traiislate, " Here are a herd of pigs 

 for you," thereby leading to the inference that the ship's 

 stores and crew should be used as food by the receiver of the 

 message. This tragedy was so carried out. The other trans- 

 lation, "Here are sacred pigs for you," is hardly probable. 

 In any case, "herd" and " sacred" could not appear in this 

 sentence in conjunction. 



Shortland writes, I believe, " Wakatane," not " Whaka- 

 tane " ; and I notice both he and Dieffenbach omit the " h " 

 in many words purposely, leading to the inference that this 

 was a customary habit with certain Maori tribes. Shortland 

 gives the traditional origin of the place-name Whaka-tane. 

 The crew of " Tainui " having arrived at New Zealand, landed 

 at this place, and climbed inland, leaving the canoe on the 

 beach. A girl, seeing the incoming tide and raging waves 

 ■endangering the canoe, exclaimed " Whaka-tane," " Let me 

 play the man " — i.e., go to the rescue of the canoe (presumably 

 assisted by the other women). Whaka, the causative prefix ; 

 tane, " a man." 



Mr. Alexander Shand, of the Chatham Islands, publishes 

 a Moriori pedigree in the " Journal of the Polynesian So- 

 ciety," vol. iv., page 43. In the personal names there given 

 are: No. 83, Manu-kau-moana, "a bird swims the sea"; 

 No. 84, Kahu-ti, " at the time of this ancestor Kahu arrived " 

 from New Zealand; No. 85, Ta-titi-ri, " the knocking-down 

 of the rahui" ; No. 86, Ko-rongo, "peace is made." Have 

 we not here the following information : Kahn-tia, " Kahu 

 sticks in a peg or post " ; ta-titi-ri, "it is knocked down by 

 the inhabitants of Chathams " ; ko-rongo, "after which peace 

 is ratified or entered into with the new arrivals." 



At a later date, in the time of No. 157, Eongopapa, a 

 heke, or migration, of " Eangimata " (canoe) came to the 

 •Chathams, when Marupuku, who lived at Auapatiki, con- 



