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so presented a close surface. The completed figure maintained its lozenge- 
shaped appearance from the long axis of the handle passing diagonally 
through opposite corners of the square. It is interesting to note that the 
name of the fly-flap, patu ngaro, is given to some of the lozenge motives 1 
in the decorative lattice-work of house-panels. The Ngati-Porou of the  — 
east coast called a fire-flap a hauhau rango. Occasionally a strip of ах — — 
dyed black was alternated with the white to give a decorative effect. 
Occasionally, too, there might be two cross-pieces instead of one, this 
producing a six-sided figure. (See Plate 37, fig. 2 
Fic. 14.—Fly-flap : front. Fic. 15.—Fly-flap: back. E 
Fig. 15 shows that the flax strip crosses the posterior surface of the arms of he i 
cross horizontally or vertically, whereas on the anterior surface it crosses diagonally. — 
success reaching the neighbouring Ngati-Ruanui Tribe, a formal invitation — — 
conducted with all the etiquette appertaining to ancient warfare was sent 
to the Ati Awa. The thirty warriors, fully armed, obeyed the summons | 
and conducted the attack so vigorously that in a short space the Nat a 
Ruanui tribal prison-cells were utterly cleared of the enemy. Ceremomla —— 
speeches were then made by the indebted tribe, and a large (for a pris E 
quantity of tobacco handed over with due observances to the victorious — | 
war-party. It was one of these successful veterans who constructed the | A 
fly-lap above described. Thus the temporary incarceration of my Own E 
tee resulted in the recording of an ethnological item of some small ` 
. Flat ornaments made like the fly-flap were used on the ends of the piume 
(hihi) of a canoe. They were also called patu ngaro, from the origi a 
the motive. The same motive is also used in some fish-traps, such as w 
torehe and the tutoko. They were used as bait-rests, a strand of flax or fibre — 
being passed over the bait and round the projecting arms of the cross е 
secure it in position. The Whanau Apanui Tribe, of the Bay of Plenty, — 
term the bait-rest of the torehe trap a pouraka. - 
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