mallert.] SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOR IN NEW ZEALAND. 57 



the hahnoga took place, the scraped bones of the chief, thus ornamented, and wrapped 

 in a red-stained mat, were deposited in a box or bowl, smeared with the sacred color, 

 and placed in a tomb. Near bis final resting-place a lofty and elaborately carved 

 monument was erected to his memory; this was called he tiki, which was also thus 

 colored. 



In former times the chief annointed his entire person with red ochre; when fully 

 dressed on state occasions, both he and bis wives had red paint and oil poured upon 

 the crown of the head and forehead, which gave them a gory appearance, as though 

 their skulls had been cleft asunder. 



A large number of examples occur in the present paper where the 

 use and significance of color is mentioned. Among these see pages G4, 

 165-'6-'7, and 183. 



