Tr Rawer Hinoa.— Maori Plaited Basketry and Plaitwork. 351 
7. SANDALS: PARAERAE. 
Sandals were plaited from flax, or the leaves of the Cordyline australis. 
mentions tha the Poutini coast they were also made mountain 
grass, and that in expeditions from five to twenty pairs were carried by 
each individual were quiekly worn out in rough stony country 
whatever material was available. In the North Island the use was not so 
universal. The Whanganui and East Coast people know nothing of them, 
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and regard them with scepticism. In Taranaki, however, they were worn 
until fairly recently by old men at Parihaka. ey say they were used 
to protect the feet from the frost as well as the rough stones on the beaches. 
They were also used in the Taupo and Moawhango districts, where they were 
termed parekereke. .Best (3) states that in the Tuhoe country special ones 
were plaited from the tumatakuru shrub (Aciphylla squarrosa) for crossing 
the Huiarau Range. A rough kind of combined sandal and legging is named 
