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2. Thumbs into middle-finger loops, and take the string between fore¬ 
finger and thumb ; hold the far wrist string with the foot and the near 
wrist string with the teeth (or a second person holds the two strings) ; slip 
the loops off the wrist over tips of fingers and draw the hands apart. 
By holding the strings taut and alternately bringing the hands and teeth 
and foot together, and separating them, the sawing is done. 
The writer did not see this figure produced ; but a young girl at Ohine- 
mutu, to whom he had taught several figures, one day said, “ A Maori boy 
showed me this, but I cannot remember the finish.” The writer saw what 
was evidently intended, finished the figure, and asked “ Was that it ? ” 
■ ‘ Yes ” was the answer. She did not get the name by which the figure 
was known, and did not know the name of the boy, and saw him “ only 
once in a blue moon.” She promised to ask particulars next “blue moon,” 
but none such rose before the writer left Rotorua, and the figure is recorded 
for further inquiry. It is probably introduced, as it does not start with a 
Maori or Pacific opening, but with the one common in Europe. 
Fig. 12. — Ngutu koko. 
Ngutu koko. 
(From H. Ruru, a Ngafei-Porou man, Gisborne.) 
Synonym : Te kiwi (Te Kiwi-amohau, Arawa Tribe, Ohinemutu). 
Note. —The Ngati-Porou have also a figure called kiwi, so the name by Te Kiwi- 
Etmohau may be from a fancied resemblance.) 
j 1. Opening A. 
2. Release thumbs. 
3. Thumbs through forefinger loop from above, into little-finger loop 
from below ; take on their backs near little-finger string and return. 
4. Release little fingers. 
5. Little fingers through forefinger loop from above, into thumb loop 
from below ; take on their backs far thumb string and return. 
6. Release thumbs. 
7. Repeat movement 3. 
8. Middle fingers into forefinger loop from above; take near forefinger 
string on backs, returning to position ; turn palms away, and release thumbs. 
The figure is best displayed if the string is kept well towards the tips 
of the middle fingers, being held there by the forefingers, the string round 
the forefingers being kept well towards the roots of those fingers, whilst 
the thumbs press down the bottom string of the pattern. 
(To be continued.) 
