Fig. 28.— Continuation of komore. 
once—then up behind the top string and down before it, so that the top 
string is the top string of the small loop now formed. Turn palms up, 
insert thumbs into this loop, and the rest of the fingers into the big loop 
formed by the upper twisted strings and the bottom string of the figure, 
the backs of the hands being towards this bottom string. 
2. A releases his hands, and B draws strings taut. 
3. B inserts middle fingers into thumb loops from above, lifts the near 
thumb strings on their backs and turns palms away, spreading the fingers.- 
244 The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. [Nov. 
A further continuation of the figure was learned :— 
2. Te Reinga. 
The two parallel strings across the centre of the figure are taken with 
finger and thumb and pulled downwards, resulting in a deep well-shaped 
figure. “ That is Te Reinga, where the spirits go,” said the Maori. 
In a third continuation the strings are drawn upwards instead of 
downwards, representing te rangi, the sky. 
Fig. 27.— Te Reinga (continuation of Te moana nui a Kiwa). 
Continuation of Komore, or Kainga Komore. 
(From “Bella,” an Arawa woman and guide at Whakarewarewa.) 
This requires a second person, B. A sets up 'komore (the figure obtained 
at Gisborne, but not named ; see N.Z. Jour. Sci. & Tech., vol. 3, p. 204). 
1. B takes the lower left string of the left diamond, and the lower right 
string of the right diamond, brings it up behind the upper string of the 
diamond, down before it, and up behind it again—that is, twists it round 
