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11. Release the loops from the little fingers, and, keeping the index 
and middle fingers together, spread the fingers and thumbs, drawing the 
strings taut as you turn the palms away from you, when the finished pattern 
of tonga raurepe appears. (Fig. 19.) 
Wahine and Tane. 
Method. 
1. Wahine. 
1. Opening A. 
2. Bend the index fingers and put them under the little-finger loop, 
straighten them, carrying up on their backs both strings of the loop, but 
leaving the loops on the little fingers. 
Fig. 19 .—Tonga raurepe. The completed figure. 
3. Turn the palms towards you, insert the index fingers from above into 
the thumb loop, straighten them, carrying up on their backs the near 
thumb string, and by so doing taking the loops off the thumbs. 
4. Insert the thumbs from below into the index loop, up and behind 
the far upper index string, so that the lower far index string is against the 
inside of the thumb, the upper far index string against the back of the 
thumb. 
5. Close the thumb and index finger of each hand, grasping between 
them the far upper index string. (Fig. 20.) Bend the wrists so that the 
index fingers point downwards, allowing all the strings to slip from the 
