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Tuta Nihoniho also supplied a few explanatory notes : “In some cases 
it required two operators to set up a complicated pattern. Only adepts 
could make some of the intricate ones, hence the saying, Na wai koe, te 
kuare, i ki kia rite koe ki te tangata ka rapa te wliai (Who said that you, 
the ignoramus, should be equal to the person who can make intricate whai 
designs ?) ; also, Na wai te tangata ka rapa te whai, as said of a person 
who excels at making the difficult patterns of whai (He who excels at so 
difficult a thing should be able to do anything). All performers strove to 
surpass others. Elders as well as children indulged in whai, and any child 
who was clever and quick in learning to make or set up the more intricate 
patterns was deemed worthy of being taught higher things—perhaps even 
to be entered as a pupil in the whare wanangaN 
List 2. 
(Supplied by Kahotea te Heuheu, of Taupo, of the Tuwharetoa Tribe.) 
Nga tara kaikape. 
Tama a roa (3). 
Te kotiro (4). 
Te whare o Takoreke (3, 4). 
Te mahau (o te whare o Takoreke). 
Kopu (1). 
Purere-kohu. 
Tongariro. 
Te rara tuna. 
Te komore (3). 
Nga Maui (4). 
Te ikiiki. 
Te manuka piko. 
Of these designs, some are secondary, formed from others. The one 
called te manuka piko is formed from te ikiiki. That known as te rara tuna 
shows eels being smoke-dried at a fire called an ahi rara ika. When 
forming Purere-kohu, the manipulator says, Purere-kohu e! Ka mau koe i 
te taua (0 Purere-kohu ! you will be captured by the enemy), and the 
manipulation of the cord shows Purere, thus addressed, jumping over a 
cliff to escape. 
List 3. 
(Supplied by members of the Tuhoe Tribe.) 
Tiremiremi. 
Tonganui. 
Whare puni (5). 
Te whare to to kau. 
Te whare o Takoreke (2, 4). 
Te whare pora. 
Komore (2). 
Tama a roa (2). 
Tama a hine. 
Mouti (1, 4). 
Wiwirau (4). 
Paekohu (1, 4). 
Te rara matai. 
Te tutira o Maui. 
Te whakahua horopito. 
Te ana i Tar&po, or Te ana o 
Karanga-hape. 
Te ahi i tunua ai te manawa 
o Nukutauparoro. 
Te waka a Tama-rereti (1, 4). 
When the tiremiremi design was set up its parts were made to move as 
the following was recited :— 
E ai ana hold e pare he ana 
Te waha o to kotore ki rau o te whenua 
Ira to puta te kainga o te ariki 
Aua nene, aua rekareka. 
The whare o Takoreke represents a house decorated with carvings ; 
whilst the whare toto kau is, as its name implies, a house plain and 
unadorned. Among the Tuhoe, the whare pora is the house of weaving. 
The rara matai represents a tree with branches. 
