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powerful family, realizing his impotence, spake bitterly and said, “ Ko 
te moko ta kau i au; mehe ko te moko i а Rangi-nui-te-Ao, e mana ana te _ 
kohatu, e mana ana te tukituki " (* Alas! the tattooing of my face was in 
vain; were it but the tattooing on the face of Rangi-nui-te-Ao, then the  . 
stone club and the stone pounder would be backed by the authority of  . 
power").  Rangi-nui-te-Ao was the eldest of the seven brothers. This _ 
saying reached the ears of Tukutahi and Rehetaia, the powerful kinsmen 
of the helpless one. Inquiries and explanations led to the advent of a 
war-party, which effectively— but that is another story. 
The ahi-ka-roa, the fire that has been alight for a long period, is a well- — 
known term in establishing claims to land. It takes its origin from the - 
custom or necessity of not allowing the fire to become extinct. $ 
Apart from the method of rekindling a cooking-fire, charcoal fires were | 
the ordinary means of heating the wharepuni, or dwelling-houses. The : 
lack of ventilation prohibited the use of wood, owing to the nuisance - 
created by smoke. The charcoal as it burnt down was covered by a deposit _ 
of ash, which was usually gently waved off with the fire-fan ere a fresh _ 
supply of charcoal was added. E 
The necessity for a fire-fan was further occasioned by the general - 
repugnance of the Maori to blowing a fire with the breath. This took its 
tapu affected those who partook of it, and the act thus transgressed E: 
chiefs tapu. The act of cooking food on such a fire was also a direct - 
: e beginning- 
edge may be done by plaiting the butt wefts with а three-ply braid as in the 
mat. e рем. fini i ) i 
6. FLY-FLAPS: PATUNGARO. 6 
The fly-flap, ог fly-whisk, of Polynesi i odified repre- 
tlle , olynesia again finds a m rd 
sentative in New Zealand. The fuifui lago oe Nine and fue of Samoa are 
