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horrid noise.” The surface of the calabash was ornamented with incised 
lines, made when the rind was so The specimen in e British 
Museum is about 34 in. in diameter and 74 in. in circumference. 
Mention should be made of the pahu, though this was см only for 
emitting a great body of sound: as in other parts of the world, it was 
used for signalling (see Hamilton, Maori Art, pp. 98, 384). 
The following particulars are from a note by the late Captai ain Mair. 
The pahu, pato, or wooden gong, was a single slab of totara (Podocarpus 
ie ү mc Ve 
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Fic. 2.—A pahu, or war-gong. еч гот иу Ancient History of the Maori, 
. 128.) 
э or matai нр жө), шна 30 ft. in length, 2 ft. or 
3 ft. in breadth, n. in thiekness. It was suspended by two stout 
ropes ees a det pale "built on à high rangi, or platform, in an angle of 
the pa, the platform being approached by a ladder. In the centre of the 
slab there was usually an elliptical hole 2 ft. or 3 ft. in length. Тһе slab was 
struck with a heavy club made from maire (Olea Cunninghamii), and 
under favourable C age could be heard to a distance of from six 
to ten miles. (See fig. 2.) 
