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would sometimes charm his mistress by proxy. Sitting in the dusk or dark, 
the player would be beside him; but should the fire brighten the playing | 
would cease. No doubt some unpleasantness might follow when such 
wooing proved successful. Iehu said that Tutanekai gave his sister to Lae 
is friend as a reward for his services. This is not given as the reason in 
the tale, and no doubt the Arawa would have something to say on the | 
subject. EC 
Tt is difficult, however, if not impossible, to gather fact from legend, | 
and it is perhaps indiscreet to attempt to do so. It is equally difficult | 
to separate fact from fiction in information concerning matters of this 
ind derived from living men. | 
The koauau upon which the details above were based happened to have 
à conical bore, the holes happened to coincide with the finger-joints, and 
the length happened to be the length of a forefinger. The flute is, however, 
modern; many, modern and old, do not conform with the requirements 
above as regards bore, length, or distance between the holes. Nevertheless, 
the holes, or at least that were there such they were unknown to the makers 
of the altered flutes ; le: 
pleased the ear, certain that displeased it. The conclusion appears e: 
that the Maori was “ feeling” for the intervals, unconsciously it may be 
even though such proportion were indefinite. He - 
here is a fine carved koauau in the Dominion Museum, Welling 
(Plate 83, fig. 1). It is in the shape of a double-headed phallus, an 
