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*Hinetemoa,—derived like Hinemoa (ante) but having a different 
meaning. + 
*Te Awheramoa,—this may mean, to surround a Moa or Moas, through 
going behind ; or, to relate, or point out, the precise place where a Moa or 
Moas had been seen. 
Raumoa = Moa’s feather: also, a variety of New Zealand Flax (Phor- 
mium): also, a blade of grass (Spinifez). 
Himoa = ? to fish with a hook and line having a bit of Moa’s bone 
(fossil) attached as a lure—as the Maoris formerly did at the East Cape. 
aramoa,—this may mean the same as Taramoa; the k being substi- 
tuted for t, which is sometimes done. 
(N.B-— Those preceding names of persons and of places have been 
obtained from all parts of the North Island.) 
(4.) As a compound word for names of things, ete., e.g. :— 
Raumoa,1 
Kauhangaamoa, | names of 8 varieties of New Zealand Flax (Phormium). 
Karuamoa, 
Hinamoa—a grub in wood, eating and making it rotten, and yet having 
a fair outside. 
Rauhamoa—a large bird. 
me } Bramble (Rubus australis). 
ataramoa, 
Tautauamoa—a dispute about a piece of land or bed (moa) in a cultiva- 
tion ; a quarrel between a few of the same tribe; a private quarrel. 
1 Hinetemoa, a lady who lived eleven generations back (and an ancestress of Henare 
Toomoana, M.H.R.), was the wife of the chief Hikawera, and mother of Te Whatuiapiti, 
from whom the sub-tribe of Ngatitewhatuiapiti, residing at Patangata and Waipukurau in 
Hawke's Bay, are descended. On my € ae of the old chiefs of that tribe, 
why she obtained that name? the reply was: To show her high rank; she being the 
daughter of a great chief and of a great Bis d Hine—which was joined to that of the 
one great majestic Moa dwelling on the mountain Whakapunake, there being no other, 
so—Hinetemoa ! ! 
1 Raumoa, being the name for a variety of New Zealand Flax (Phormium), found on 
the ‘West Coast (unknown by sight to me), and also a name for the leaves of the sea-side 
grass Spinifex hirsutus, a question here arises: (1) is the eas green Spinifex similar in 
hue to the said variety of Phormium ? and, if so, (2) could the extinct bird a havo had 
plumage of a similar colour in the eye of the old Maoris ? (3) the hairy i i and 
closely growing Spinifex might also have carried a resemblance to the coarse body: feath 
of the Moa. From strict etymological analogy, I should say, there must have been some- 
the plant Rauhuia — the plume of the Huia (Linum monogynum), just because it bears 
its numerous white fiowers at the tips of its branches, so reminding the old Maori of the 
white-tipped feathers of the Huia (Heteralocha gouldi). 
