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Ropes. — The main drag-rope is tied to the pouwaenga. The side ropes 

 tied to the punga uprights are called tangitangi, the same name as the 

 second set of uprights. They join the main rope about 4 ft. from the 

 pouwaenga. 



The net of the paepae has no special name. The one I saw had a 1\ in. 

 mesh. The opening of the net was fitted to the framework of the paepae 

 and tvhitiwhiti. From this opening the net gradually narrowed down to 

 a point about 10 ft. 10 in. away. To this point was attached a piece of 

 rope 7 ft. long, which carried the punga, or koremu (the stone sinker). 



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Fig. 2. — Paepae, or dredge-net. 



I saw Ngati-Uenuku-Kopako at Mokoia Island with a paepae of which 

 the arch, or whitiwhiti, was composed of thick, plain wire. The paepae 

 bar was 10 ft. 8 in. long, and extra uprights were inserted between the 

 punga and tangitangi uprights These were called whitiwhiti, the same 

 name as the arch. 



Naming. — As in the case of other nets, good paepae, which caught large 

 catches, were named after ancestors or near relatives. 



Method of Dredging. — When collecting these notes we went hauling on 

 the Moari grounds off Mokoia. The first procedure was to plant a long 

 pole, called a turuturu, firmly into the bottom of the lake, on one edge of 

 the rather shallow fishing-ground. A fairly long rope of whanake leaves 

 was tied near the bottom of the turuturu before it was thrust down. It 

 takes a skilled man to plant the turuturu. On touching bottom it is gently 

 twirled with one hand, and gradually insinuated more and more deeply 



