Fig. 8. —Ruapehu and Tovgariro. 
Te TOTARA I KUTIA AI A MaRU. 
(From Makurata, a Tuhoe woman.) 
Synonym : Ng-a puna paraoa (Ivoriniti, Wanganui River). 
(Two persons are required to show the finished figure.) 
1. Opening A. 
2. Exchange forefinger loops, first putting the right-forefinger loop on 
the left forefinger, then lifting the left over the right and putting it on the 
right forefinger. Drop the forefinger loops over the hands to the wrists. 
* Ihere is some confusion between these two names and two others, Maungati and 
Maungata, mountains in another figure not yet seen. These names were also given to a 
design used in Maori reed-panel work. See Te Rangi Hiroa, “ Maori Decorative 
Art/’ Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 53, p. 461, and fig. 5, p. 462, 1921. They are there 
called mangati and mangata. The names are also applied (Mrs. Gordon) to the third 
combination of Waka a. Tama-rereti, where three interchangeable names—Maungati, 
Maungatuha, and Maungatawheroa — are given. krom other evidence, however, I 
think this is a different figure altogether. 
1921.] Andersen.—Maori String-games : Second Series. 151 
Second Figure : Ruapehu and Tongariro.* 
A second person, B, takes between the forefinger and thumb of either 
hand the two strings forming the top of the figure, grasping them at 
the centre, between the two central Maui. A releases the loop whose 
lower string is held down by the thumbs, raising his thumbs and 
allowing it to slip off the forefingers as B raises the two strings 
upwards till they form two tall triangles. These represent the two 
mountains. 
