Те Raner Hrroa.—Maori Plaited Basketry and Plaitwork. 353 
The butt ends are not specially scraped, uris they show a tuft of fibre 
from the takirikiri process of tearing the strips off the butt end of the leaf. 
The strips are allowed to dry a little, so as ws avoid dnt gea ed 
The whole bundle of strips is divided into two equal parts trips 
composing one part are knotted together at their thin ends, corresponding 
to the narrower tip end of the leaf, with an overhand knot. The strips 
added, one to each = The strips are reversed, the wider butt ends 
= the | м strips being plaited in first. The added strips materially 
e thickness of ie band, until the butt ends of the first set are 
ня вт on the band gradually tapers off until the tip ends of the 
second end are reached and finished off with an overhand knot. The total 
length of the band I am describing is 46 in. Its width in the middle is 
24 ш. and thickness ljin.- The part of the band between the tapering 
llin. at either end maintained the fairly even width of 24 in., and there- 
fore the business part of the band is roughly 2 ft. in length. It was thus 
necessary to have two or three bands to encircle the oven, the tapering 
ends, being too low, being отецаррей by the wider parts of the neigh- 
bouring bands. (See Plate 36, fig. 3 
These braided paepae lasted à long time, and were hung up in the 
cooking-houses after use. They make a strong serviceable band, but owing 
to their narrower width the food is more likely to flow over than with 
the wider-plaited bands. On the other hand, they save the trouble of 
seeking out fresh flax before cooking each meal. 
5. FIRE-FANS: PIUPIU AHI. 
Fans, which must have been well known to the Maori in Polynesi 
were soon forgotten and discarded in the colder climate of New Zealand. 
So far as one can gather, € were no fans used for directing a current 
of air towards the heated face. The sole representative of the well-made 
and artistic fans of the vensa Polynesian islands was a rectangular strip 
of plaited flax used for fanning a smouldering fire into flame. To avoid 
the repeated use of the fire-plough, with its somewhat strenuous exertion, 
the coals of a fire which had completed its immediate work were covered 
over with ashes so as to keep them alive. To restart the fire the ashes 
were parted, and the coals, which had smouldered slowly, were fanned into 
a glow as the ee was ores Тһе bankin: so Te p of fires was an 
brothers and their warriors, was subjected to a series of annoyances by a 
neigh sub-tribe. This was done in order that he might be con- 
strained to leave the district without an actual declaration of active 
| — When he went inland, his p day's catch of fish, hanging 
to pres iig were surreptitiously remov en he went afishing, his 
naai of fern-root, drying in the sun, were similarly qiia The 
limit of Б. was reached when the live coals of his banked-up бге 
were abstracted. The coals were not put out with viter as active signs 
of interference would have been noticed ; but, like the fish and the fern- 
root, they simply disappeared—they faded away. The sole survivor of 
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