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3. Close right forefinger and thumb, insert them from below into the 
left-forefinger-and-thumb loop—that is, insert them so that thumbs and 
forefingers of both hands are together and pointing in same direction. 
Push the right forefinger and thumb under the left-forefinger-and-thumb 
loop, over the V formed by the strings leaving the closed left forefinger 
and thumb, and down, grasping the quadruple string lying between the 
left forefinger and thumb and the left little finger, drawing this quadruple 
string through the right-forefinger-and-thumb loop. (There are now two 
loops of double strings over the ring and little fingers of the left hand, a 
similar loop on the forefinger and another on the thumb of the left hand, 
and the right forefinger and thumb hold the quadruple string from which 
all these loops spring.) 
4. Transfer one of the loops held by ring and little fingers of left hand 
to little finger, the other to the ring-finger. Work the quadruple string 
held by right forefinger and thumb so that the loops are of approximately 
the same size, release all fingers of the left hand, and arrange the loops to 
form the sides of the basket. 
Matamata rare (? Karehu). 
(From Whaare-mutu, a Tuhoe woman.) 
Synonyms : Kaheru* (a spade) (Arawa Tribe of Ohinemutu and Whaka- 
rewarewa, and Ngati-Porou Tribe) ; Tore-o-Toi (at Koriniti, Wanganui 
River). 
Fig. 24. —Matamata hare, or kaheru. 
1. Opening A. 
2. Forefinger loops dropped over backs of hands to wrists. 
3. Thumbs into little-finger loop from below ; take on backs the near 
little-finger string and return. 
4. Middle fingers into lower thumb loop from below; take on backs 
the far thumb string and return. 
5. Navaho thumbs—that is, lift lower loop over top of thumb and 
drop on palmar side—and release little fingers. 
6. Close both hands, to hold all strings, turn hands downwards so that 
wrist loops drop to palmar side, and extend. 
The Tuhoe people continued this figure, so as— 
To trap Tama te Kapua. 
The four loops are the four leashes in the European figure. Two 
persons take each two leashes, spread them right and left, drawing the long 
* Rapalcahetu was the name of a design used in Maori reed-panel work, and the name 
is said to be taken from the whai name. See Te Rangi Hiroa, “Maori Decorative Art,” 
Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 53, p. 461, and fig. 11, p. 463, 1921. 
