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This is the least satisfactory of the three forms of this figure. It differs 
from the others in being extended on three fingers instead of two, in having 
two loops round the forefingers in the finished pattern, and in the right- 
hand-side strings of the left diamond and the left-hand strings of the 
middle diamond looping over each other instead of passing directly across 
the pattern as in the other forms. It is peculiar, too, that the symmetrical 
motions employed should require unsymmetrical movements to display the 
figure and produce an unsymmetrical result. 
Fig. 36. —Tutae takahuri. The figure is displayed by its maker, Aporo. 
This figure is of especial interest, as it is produced in at least three 
widely different parts of the world, and in all three by a different method. 
This difference argues for an independent origin of the three forms, and there 
may be other ways of producing the three diamonds of the pattern, ways 
already known or to be discovered. Diamonds are the natural forms 
assumed by crossed strings, and their number in one row ranges from one 
to five, or it may be more. Five is the largest number seen by the writer : 
one of the patterns seen at Gisborne showed five diamonds (fig. 36), but 
unfortunately the method of procedure was not obtained. Figures 35 
and 37 were also obtained at Gisborne, but without the method of pro¬ 
cedure. The last is of especial interest, as it represents the four brothers 
