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have, in the special characters of the effigies made of chiefs, 

 evidence that priests have been the executants. Dr. Ferdi 

 nand von Hochstetter says : 



&quot;The carved Maori-figures, which are met with on the road, are the 

 memorials of chiefs, who, while journeying to the restorative baths of 

 Rotorua, succumbed to their ills on the road. Some of the figures are 

 decked out with pieces of clothing or kerchiefs ; and the most remark 

 able feature in them is the close imitation of the tattooing of the 

 deceased, by which the Maoris are able to recognize for whom the 

 monument has been erected. Certain lines are peculiar to the tribe, 

 others to the family, and again others to the individual.&quot; 



As the priests are the professional tattooers, probably being 

 also the authorities concerning tribal and family marks, it 

 is a fair inference that they are the makers of these images 

 of chiefs, in which the tribal, family, and individual marks 

 are represented. 



Certain usages have been found among the Australians 

 which, if not directly relevant, are indirectly relevant. At 

 an initiation ceremony in the Murring tribe, according to 

 Howitt 



&quot; A similar rude outline of a man in the attitude of the magic dance, 

 being also Daramulun, is cut by the old men (wizards) at the cere 

 monies, upon the bark of a tree at the spot where one of them knocks 

 out the tooth of the novice. . . . 



&quot;At a subsequent stage of the proceedings a similar figure is 

 moulded on the ground in clay, and is surrounded by the native 

 weapons which Daranmlun is said^to have invented.&quot; 



Here the obvious implication is that the traditional hero, 

 Daramulun, is represented by the figures which the wizards 

 (medicine-men or priests) make; while the initiation cere 

 mony is the dedication of the novice to him, considered as 

 present in the figure: to which figure, indeed, a road is 

 marked out on the tree, down which Daramulun is supposed 

 to descend to the image. 



By the above-named house-posts which, among the New 

 Zealanders, are erected as memorials, of members of the 

 family, we are introduced to the further set of illustrations 



