174 Transactions.— Miscellaneous. 



In the Maerewhenua Creek I noticed a very prevalent 

 form in the stones, which would render it an easy matter to 

 manufacture from a well-selected sample a stone mere of the 

 form we frequently see in Otago, and Otago only. I give a 

 sketch of two stone clubs of this form found in the vicinity 

 (Plate VIII., figs. 3 and 4) ; they are remarkable for having 

 the perforated hole in a most unusual position. 



Before leaving the subject of the pictographs, I may say 

 that a fragment of a map made by an old Maori — Te Ware- 

 korari — for Mr. Mantell, in 1848, shows several localities in 

 which sculptured and painted rocks are to be found up the 

 Waitaki, and I am making inquiries through some friends in 

 the district to identify these spots. 



Discovery of a Maori Kete at Upper Taieri. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. W. G. Eutherfurd, of Eugged 

 Eidges, I was enabled to examine a very interesting Maori ketc, 

 or basket, containing a number of articles of interest, which 

 had been found in a small cave formed by an overhanging 

 rock on the Puketoi Station, Patearoa, Upper Taieri, by 

 Mr. D. M. Wright. The kete was a large one, laced up with 

 a long attached cord, which passed alternately through the 

 small loops on the opposite sides in the usual way, and was 

 in excellent condition, the cave being clean and dry. The 

 <;ontents were as follows : — 



(1.) Several bundles of dressed flax {^vhitazc), in hanks 

 (whenu). Two of the bundles were stained a beautiful black 

 colour (parapara). 



(2.) Two small mats, just commenced (kakahu). 



(3.) A very large Haliotis shell (pana), which had a 

 beautiful plaited-flax handle worked on to it, passing through 

 the natural holes in the shell. The shell was still full of red 

 paint, and a piece of an old mat soaked in the paint was in it 

 to serve as a brush. The red paint would be either applied 

 to the person or to the buildings or ornaments of a chief. 

 There was a smaller paua shell not used. 



(4.) Two bones from the wings of an albatros, cut off 

 neatly at each end, and prepared for flutes ; the holes, how- 

 ever, were not bored. 



(5.) Several pieces of dogskin : one piece cut into strips 

 for a chief's mat ; colour, reddish-brown and white. 



(6.) A bag about lOin. by 6in., beautifully made in several 

 patterns, a long flax cord attached to the upper part. The 

 bag was made of very thin strips of some leaf, and the Puke- 

 teraki natives at once recognised it as a kind called piLkoro, 

 this being the name for a particular kind of bag into which 

 the fruit of the tutu (Coriaria) is put, and the juice expressed 



