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and there left. This is said to have been the first occasion on 

 which a coffin was used in this district. 



Tama-a-mutu obtained the name of Tama-tuhi-rae (Tama 

 the brow-marked) from the fact that he used to ornament his 

 brow in ancient fashion by marking it with red ochre (horu). 

 It was also a custom to so mark the skulls of chiefs when the 

 bones were disinterred and deposited in a burial cave or tree. 

 There were two ways of so marking — the tuhi korae, or tuhi marei 

 kura, consisted of horizontal stripes smeared across the forehead ; 

 while the tuhi kohuru was a series of red stripes running diagon- 

 ally from the upper corner of the forehead downwards over the 

 eye to the cheek. The descendants of Tama-tuhi-rae are known 

 as the Ngai- Tama-tuhi-rae clan, generally abbreviated to Ngai- 

 Tama. Their principal living chiefs are Te Whiu Maraki (he 

 who captured Kereopa, the eye-swallower, at Ohaua) and Tamai- 

 koha. This clan of Tuhoe' resides at Te Waimana. I submit a 

 genealogy from Tama-a-mutu : — 



Taina-a-mutu 



Whetu-roa 



Te Kapo-o-te-rangi 



Te Umu-ki-marau 



I 

 Te Tapu 



Tama-te-karonga 



Te Whaka-utauta 



I 

 Ruku-wai 



I 

 Te Hau-rehe 



I 

 Taonga-urn 



Wetahu 



I 

 Hinekura 



Te Waka-unua 



Wati. 



In the following song we observe a reference to Tama-a-mutu 

 and his institution of the custom of tree burial. This com- 

 position is termed a " tangi tawhiti," a singular class of chaunts 

 by which persons are said to have been bewitched and done to 

 death at a distance. It was composed and utilised by one Piki 

 neaT a hundred years ago : — 



