92 TUTIRA 



1. Kokopuru pa, showing characteristic carvings on "take" or main posts of palisades. 



Note tewhatewha with feather or dog-skin puhi, and other figure with were. 



2. Nga-ipu-a-Te-Amohia, two little lakelets in the vicinity of the pa. 



3. Opouahi lakelet, also in the vicinity, famous for the abundance of eels within it. 



Note the typical eel. 



4. Representative warriors of the Ngai-Tatara. This sept and the Ngati-moe, it will be 



recollected, were hoa matenga, friends together to death. 



5. The setting forth from Tiekenui of the Urewera foemen, evidently, to judge from their 



stature, inferior to the men of the Ngai-Tatara. 



6. The fighting over, the enemy are invited to the great meeting - house on the 



Matarangi hill-top. This meeting-house was remarkable in its door at either end ; 

 there, revolving mischief, the foe can be seen cloaked in their korowai mats. 



7. Food placed before the visitors consisting of preserved birds in calabash. Note 



carved wooden mouth of calabash, and woven basket around gourds and on 

 tripods, also the kits of potatoes beneath. The guests, however, decline to 

 partake of this food, a disinclination which, according to Te Hata-Kani, proved 

 that they meditated treachery, and which absolved any action the Ngai-Tatara 

 might think fit to take. The uprights of the meeting-house had, "just in case," 

 been already prepared for these dishonourable Urewera, almost completely cut 

 through. 



8. Talking it over, an arrangement reached by which four parties of the Tutira men 



show four parties of the Urewera the Waerenga or crop lands where the latter 

 could gather their own food. As, however, the Urewera could not be trusted, in 

 each of the four bands thirteen of the Ngai-Tatara, armed with spears, accompanied 

 twelve Urewera carrying potato kits in Te Hata's sketch the three figures on the 

 one side and the two on the other represent for lack of space the parties 

 respectively of thirteen and of twelve. 



9. The four Waerenga or cultivation-grounds of differing shapes, each also showing its 



rubbish pit ; there as a necessary precaution, to forestall the treachery of the 

 Urewera, the four parties of thirteen spearmen slew the four parties of twelve 

 potato-gatherers. 



10. Whakahoehoe, the Ngai-Tatara leader, approaching pa. Note hia taiaha, Huia 



feather, were, and mat, also his attendant on the hillside, a page or squire, 

 possibly a kinsman of good birth. 



1 1 . Tamati Tararua thrusting patu into Urewera scout's temple. This was also correct 



the Urewera man had failed, I understand, to appreciate properly the greatness 

 and dignity and nobility of the Ngai-Tatara chief. In the use of the patu a violent 

 thrust and slight twist were sufficient to detach the upper part of the cranium. 



12. After these repeated instances of bad faith on the part of the Urewera the meeting- 



house is let down on to those remaining within. They are speared as they strive 

 to emerge. Te Rangi Pumamao alone escapes. He falls in his flight and breaks 

 the stock of his gun. He is caught up by Whakapipi. A duel with taiaha and 

 gun note broken stock ensues, during which another Ngai-Tatara man, Whao- 

 whaotaha, comes up behind and spears Te Rangi Pumamao through the back. 



13. Te Umu tao tangata, the oven for cooking human flesh, showing heated stones. On 



this spot was the body of Te Rangi Pumamao cooked. 



