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DESCRIPTION OF PLATES VI.-X. 

 Plate VI. 

 Rock-pictographs at a Cave-shelter on the Maerewhenua River, 

 Waitaki Valley. 

 Pig. 1. Drawn in black on the roof of the rock-shelter. 

 Fig. 2. On the wall, in black. 



Fig. . 3. Probably portion of a tattoo pattern, in black on the wall. 

 Fig. 4. Portion of an obliterated figure, drawn in red. 

 Fig. 5. Some kind of insect (walking-stick insect ?), drawn in red. 

 Fig. 6. Very indistinct, probably portion of a tattoo pattern, in red. 

 Fig. 7. A curious fish, drawn in black. 



Fig. 8. Thick portion of line, drawn in red, the dotted portion in black. 

 Fig. 9. Outside line black, inside line red. 

 Fig. 10. Large fish or whale, in black. 

 Fig. 11. In red. 

 Fig. 12. A figure from the eastward end of the limestone rocks ; there are 



remains of others at this place, but much destroyed by the 



weather. 



Plate VII. 

 Rock-pictographs at the Upper Cave-shelter, Maerewhenua River, and 



also some of the Pictographs at the Takiroa Cave. 

 Fig. 1. On walls at back of cave, in black. All the paintings in this 



cave are in black. 

 Fig. 2. Probably a porpoise. 

 Fig. 3. Porpoises : some of these are full of action. There are many 



examples of this form. 

 Fig. 4. A pattern of this kind occurs in some of the patterns for rafter- 

 painting in the mango-pare series. 

 Fig. 5. A variation in the porpoise form. 

 Fig. 6. From the rock-shelter at Takiroa. This in dark-red, and is within 



a foot of the present surface of the floor. 

 Fig. 7. In dark-red. 

 Fig. 8. This and the last figure are given in the first volume of the 



" Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," pi. vii. : it is the 



figure in which the charge of shot is embedded ; dark-red 

 Fig. 9. A figure in red high up to the right of fig. 11. 

 Fig. 10. This was regarded by Professor- Von Haast as part of a moa 



feeding, the balance of the figure being supplied by fig. 12 ; 



in red. 

 Fig. 11. On the upper part of the wall of the cave. 

 Fig. 12. The so-called body and neck of the moa (?). 

 Fig. 13, A very large shark about to devour a man. There are numerous 



figures in the neighbourhood of this group that cannot easily 



be made out. They are close to the present floor. All the 



above figures are in red. 



Plate VIII. 

 Fig. 1. A very fine stone mere found in the Strath Taieri. It was 

 concealed in a little cairn built up of loose slabs of schist. 

 At the end of the handle is the appearance of a second hole 

 having been bored, and the extreme end has broken off, 

 either during and on account of the boring, or by accident or 

 intent afterwards. The same process will be observed in fig. 

 2, where both holes are in process of formation. This seems 

 to indicate that it was the intention of the makers to have a 

 lunate or double-pointed ornamentation at the end. Though 

 there are at present few examples known, I believe that such 

 was the object. The work on No. 2 precludes the suggestion 

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