1921.] Andersen.—Maori String-games : Second Series. 149 
To display the figure a half-turn of the hands must be given, and 
the hands held vertically, right hand uppermost, the right-hand fingers 
pointing to the left and the left to the right. 
Whilst experimenting in variations of iJciiki the writer obtained the 
above figure, and was surprised to recognize an old friend : the figure is one 
produced by Aporo at Gisborne in 1919. The movements were not obtained 
at the time, though a photo of the finished figure was taken. It remains 
to be seen if the Maori movements are the same as those above. 
Many variations of ikiiki, some of 
them of considerable beauty, have 
been worked out; but, as they have 
not been seen amongst the Maori, they 
are not detailed here. 
Maui ; or, The Four Maui 
Brothers. 
(From Makurata, a Tuhoe woman ; but 
first seen set up by Aporo, a Ngati- 
Porou man.) 
First Figure. 
1. Opening A. 
2. Ring-fingers into forefinger loop 
from below, transferring loop to ring- 
fingers. 
3. Middle fingers into thumb loop 
from below, transferring loop to 
middle fingers. (Or opening A may 
be made by looping the string over 
middle and little fingers instead of 
thumb and little fingers.) 
4. Left thumb into middle-finger 
loop from below, and draw out near 
string; left forefinger down under 
near thumb string from far side, and 
raise it on its back. 
5. Right forefinger under upper Fra. Q.—Tutae taJcahuri, 
short string stretched between left 
forefinger and thumb, catch the string on back of forefinger, draw out to 
the right, the right hand returning to its position. 
6. Release left thumb, leaving an ordinary loop on the forefingers. 
(Four fingers now have ordinary loops.) 
7. Thumb under all strings on forefinger, middle and ring fingers, and 
into little-finger loop from above ; take up far little-finger string and 
return. 
8. Thumbs over strings and under near little-finger string, returning 
with that string on their backs. (There are now single loops on all the 
fingers, and a double loop on the thumbs, formed of the little-finger loop, 
the former near string of which passes across the palm over all the other 
strings to the thumbs, the former far string passing across the palm under 
all the other strings.) 
9. Forefingers down into the forefinger loop between the two palmar 
strings, the upper of those strings being on the inner side of the finger, the 
