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MAORI STRING GAMES. 
(Continued from page 92.) 
By Johannes C. Andersen. 
With Illustrations by J. McDonald. 
WHAI (CAT’S CRADLE)— continued. 
Waka a Tama-rereti. 
(This figure was made by the Maoris, but was learned from Miss Williams, 
daughter of the Yen. Archdeacon Williams, of Gisborne.) 
Method. 
1. Opening A, but taking up the palmar string with the little fingers 
instead of with the index fingers. 
2. Turn the hands so that the palms are downwards. Press down 
with the middle fingers the lower far little-finger string, the one passing 
Fig. 12. —Waka a Tama-rereti. After movement 3. 
straight across between the hands ; take this string between the lips, and 
draw it towards you under all the other strings. 
3. Insert the index fingers from below into the loop held by the lips, 
release the string from the lips, leaving it caught well up on the index 
fingers. (Fig. 12.) 
4. With the lower lip press down the near thumb string, and catch 
the crossed strings immediately beyond it—that is, the two far thumb 
strings—between the lips or teeth, and draw them back between the near 
thumb string and the index string. 
5. Release the string from the index fingers, allowing it to rest on the 
strings held by the lips. (There are now two strings passing left and right 
from the lips, a twisted loop on each thumb, and two loops, one plain and 
one twisted, on each little finger. The former far little-finger string is 
now the nearest string of all, lying in front of the near thumb string, being 
