208 The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. [Nov. 
Maui, and requires two persons for its production. The persons appearing 
in the illustration are Aporo and the writer of this paper. 
It is hoped that by means of the nomenclature used in the foregoing 
figures many more of the patterns known in New Zealand will be recorded. 
I wish to give special thanks to Mr. Elsdon Best for the Maori material 
in this paper, and to Mr. J. McDonald, of the Dominion Museum, for taking 
the photographs for the illustrations. 
Fig. 37.—The four Maui. 
The following are the authorities from which quotations have been 
made and comparisons gathered ; as noted, excellent bibliographies of the 
subject are contained in the books by Mrs. Jayne and Miss Haddon. 
Ernest Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand, 2 vols., 1843. 
Rev. Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui, 1855. 
Arthur S. Thomson, Story of New Zealand, 2 vols., 1859. 
Edward Tregear, The Maori Race, 1904. 
Caroline Eurness Jayne (Mrs. Horace Jayne), String Figures , a Study 
of Oaf s-cradles in Many Lands, 1906. • 
Kathleen Haddon, Cat’s-cradles from Many Lands, 1912. 
John White (MS. in Dominion Museum). 
Miss Haddon has recorded an additional number of Australian figures 
in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. 30 (n.s.), pt. 2, 
pp. 121 et seq. 
