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bone were also used. He has seen one specimen of wood, beautifully 
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wood being split, hollowed out, lashed together again, and carved. This 
unique poro perished, like many another Maori treasure, in à house-fire. 
It should be noted that the bone artifact shown on plate 85, fig. 6, Trans. 
N.Z. Inst., vol. 54, p. 752, 1923, and recorded as “ Bone koauau (?) in 
British Museum," is not a koauau at all, but a bone toggle that evidently 
belongs to the koauau of fig. 1. Captain Mair writes that there are several 
historical koauau in the Auckland Museum, the most notable one being 
named “ Те Murirangaranga." It is said to have been made from the 
arm-bone of a tohunga named Te Murirangaranga, who was slain by 
Whakaue for an affront put upon his son Tutanekai. It was upon this 
instrument that Tutanekai is said to have played when he lured Hinemoa 
to swim from the mainland to the island of Mokoia. А hapu of Ngati- 
whakaue called Ngatitutanekai take special pride in being descended from 
Tutanekai, and they are skilled in music, as he was said to be. Quoting 
from the notes, “ The writer has often, on a clear summer evening, sat оп 
Pukeroa, a hill above Ohinemutu village, and heard the clear piccolo strains 
of a koauau wafted across from Mokoia Island, a distance close on four miles." 
mentioned. It may be the historic flute of Mokoia, or it may not—this 
honour is claimed for about ten different flutes—but the sounds emitted 
are most sweet and pleasing; they are mellow and flute-like, not shrill 
like those of the piccolo. The bone is brownish-yellow with age, the 
interior partly honeycombed, the edge on which the lip rests ragged and 
sharp to touch, but the sweetness of the notes remains. The koauau is 
133 mm. in length ; m ee which is rough and irregular, is 16 mm. 
across the upper end, 12 mm. across the lower. There are three holes 
me in the side, their centres being respectively 23 mm., 45 mm., and 
91 from the top. There is a raised ridge on the back, pierced. with 
a jera for suspension, 48 mm. from the top. There is a little incised carving 
at the two ends, and the pattern, two double rings with cross-cuts and 
Fuerte of the shell trumpet * Te awa a te atua.” The lowest note 
this koauau is high B, the three following being B a quarter (almost 
half) sharp, then C a quarter sharp, and D. 
= are other noteworthy specimens of the koauau in the Auckland 
Museu One, named ^ Ngarangikakapiti,” was made from the arm- 
bone ө. ап rome chief of that name who was slain by the Tuhou- 
rangi in the fight at Pukekahu about the beginning of the present 
aptain Mair vals ‘the nguru a “snorer or nose-flute "; it was made 
from matai, sometimes stone, was from 4in. to Din. in length, 1lin. in 
diameter, tapering internally in exact ratio to the outer surface. ‘The 
this end being about the diameter of a lead-pencil. The exterior was 
. fancifully carved, and there were three holes for the fingers of the right hand. 
