CHAP. III.] TATTOOING. 35 



Ngu, at the summit of the nose. 



Kamcai, on the chin. 



Ngutu, on the lips. 



Hupe, in the rima nasi. 



Koroaha> on the lower maxilla, where the mas- 

 seter lies. 



Pnta-ringa, on the ears. 



Pae-pae, on the malar bones. 



Kokoti, on the cheeks. 



Korohaha, the lower spirals of the cheeks. 



Erewa, upper eyelid. 



Tiwana, over the brows and temples. 



Titiy four lines on the middle of the forehead. 



Rape, the posteriors. 



Rito, the outer lines of those spirals. 



Puhoro, the upper part of the thighs. 



The girls, as soon as they arrive at puberty, have 

 their lips tattooed with horizontal lines ; to have 

 red lips is a great reproach to a woman. With 

 females in many cases the operation ceases here, but 

 more frequently the chin is tattooed, especially in 

 the Waikato tribe, and the space between the eye- 

 brows, much resembling the tattoo of the modern 

 Egyptians : in some rare cases it extends over the 

 angles of the mouth : I have indeed seen a woman 

 whose whole face was tattooed. Women bear, be- 

 sides, the marks of their " tangi" or lamentations 

 for the dead: these are incisions made on their 

 bodies with shells, and dyed with nara/iu, often 

 running regularly down the thorax and the extre- 



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