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14. A takes the near string of the lower loop on the left of the figure, 
raises it above the top string near middle of the figure, hooks his forefinger 
round the top string (the raised string resting on the back of the finger), 
releases left corner as the forefinger is slipped to the left, catching the corner 
again, the loops having slipped free. The figure resulting is Takoko. 
15. A takes top string where it forms the base of an inverted triangle 
with double-string sides, slides finger along to the left, pushing the loop 
to the side string, releasing the hold on the left angle as the loop slips by. 
The two loops passing round the left side string are arranged so as to form 
a low inverted triangle with double base and sides, the apex being formed 
Fig. 17. —Te hoe a Kupe. After movement 15 of Te ara pikipiki a Tawhalci. 
of the strings crossed under the bottom string. The figure resulting is. 
Te hoe a Kupe. 
This is a figure which, on Tawhaki being set up, appealed very much 
to the Whanganui Maori. By a slight manipulation the blade of the paddle, 
whose point is at the bottom left-hand corner, can be made longer and 
narrower, when the shape of the whole is very like that of the paddles so 
much used on the Wanganui Biver. 
16. A disengages the strings at the apex of the triangle described 
above, making two triangles of single strings on the same double base, 
and forming between them a small triangle whose base is the bottom string. 
17. Insert the finger in this triangle, push the triangle on the left to the 
left, releasing the bottom left corner as the triangle slips to the side, 
Draw all taut, when there are three double strings forming loops meeting. 
