Best. — Food Products of Tuhoeiand. 79 



term inanga probably is applied here to the half-grown fish. 

 Marearea is here the common name for the fish. The name 

 koputea is applied to some of these fish which have white 

 bellies. 



Inanga are cooked fresh in the steam-oven, and were 

 formerly dried in large quantities for future use. They would 

 be packed in covered bundles or baskets or placed in bowls 

 for preservation. They were dried by means of spreading 

 on a shingly river-bed, and when dried (paka) by the sun 

 were packed in baskets. The term whakahunga is almost 

 equivalent to whakamdtd, before mentioned. It is applied to 

 the above packing process, and also to the baskets of packed 

 fish (e rua nga kete whakahunga i a niaua). 



The korokoro, or lamprey, is only found in the Waikare- 

 taheke Eiver in this district. It is taken in a large kind 

 of kape net. "When Matariki (the Pleiades) is seen by the 

 eye of man, then the korokoro comes forth and strolls round 

 the waters, and man is on hand to catch them. 



The small fresh- water patiki is found in the lower part 

 of the rivers, but not on the headwaters. 



The papanoko, a small fresh-water fish, is eaten. 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 tipokoyoko, maruru, and 

 toitoi (the latter is the Arawa name), another little fish of 

 these rivers, was formerly eaten until some few generations 

 ago, when it became tapu, owing to the spirit of a still-born 

 child entering it. It was taken by net. 



There is a small fresh- water shrimp in the lower Whaka- 

 tane River ; and the puene, a little creature having sis legs, is 

 eaten by children. 



The tcpokororo* formerly plentiful in the lower parts of 

 these rivers, but not found on the headwaters, has entirely 

 disappeared since the war. The roe of this fish is known as 

 the row o Tangaroa (the brains of Tangaroa, the god of fish). 

 It was taken with a net or at the weirs, which were built in 

 numbers in the rivers near the coast in former days. Another 

 way of taking them was by means of a koumu. A place is 

 selected where a bend is in the river and low flat land or a 

 shingle-bed in the bight. A ditch is cut from the lower river- 

 side into the tongue of land, so that the water will enter it, 

 but is not cut right through the tongue of land. The fish 

 are then driven up stream, while persons stand in the river 

 to prevent them going up past the mouth of the koumu, and 



* " The upokororo go to the sea to spawn, but we do not know 

 whether the eel and kokopu do so or not." 



