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3. Thumbs into little-finger loop from below, and carry back the near 
little-finger string. 
4. Middle fingers into thumb loop from below, and carry up the far 
thumb string. 
5. Teeth take the far wrist strings from below, carry them under other 
strings and drop over the thumbs. (The movement was made so by Maku- 
rata ; it may be made equally well by holding the strings taut, turning 
the palms away and inserting the thumbs into the wrist loop from below 
and over the far wrist string, returning with the string.) 
6. With the right forefinger and thumb take the near string of the left-, 
thumb loop that passes round thumb and middle finger (it should be below 
the loop that passes round the thumb and little finger), withdraw the 
thumb from all the loops, and reinsert it in the held loop, taking care that 
the two loops resting on the held loop are on the palmar side. Insert the 
Fig. 9 .—Te totara. After movement 5. 
forefinger and thumb of the right hand from above into the middle-finger 
loop, pick up the far little-finger string, draw it through the middle-finger 
loop, drop the loop from the middle finger, and again insert the little finger 
into its loop. Repeat on the right hand. 
7. With the right hand lift the two loops from the left thumb and little 
finger, withdraw that hand from the wrist loop, and replace on the left 
thumb and little finger the loops held by the right hand. Repeat on the 
right hand, and spread the figure. 
8. B may now hold the loops of the left hand, whilst A with his left fore¬ 
finger and thumb raises the upper pair of the central crossed diamonds 
that lie close when the strings are held taut. (Or they may be lifted by 
B, as in the figure whilst the loops remain on the fingers of A.) The upper 
pair of diamonds is the totara (rakau = tree) under which Maru was caught. 
Sawing Wood. 
1. Put the loop round the wrists as for European cat’s-cradle—that is, 
with double string on back of wrists and single string on front, and a near 
and far wrist string. Pick up stiing from left wrist with right middle finger, 
and string from right wrist with left middle finger, the left loop passing 
through the right as in opening A. 
