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8. Request a second person to spear the dugong by thrusting the hand 
through one of the diamonds. If he thrust the spear through the body, 
release the right hand and the dugong escapes ; if he thrust the spear 
through head or tail, the dugong cannot escape, whichever hand is released. 
A particularly interesting fact was learned from Ruru-hira, a Taupo girl 
living at Pipiriki, The name of the figure komore is kaia at the various 
Whanganui villages visited, and Ruru remarked, “ The people at Taupo 
call this komore , but they call it whai-kaia here—that means ‘ stealing,’ 
or ‘ the thief ’ ; and the thief gets caught.” The thief was caught by the 
Caroline Islands method, so that komore is a parallel with the Caroline Islands 
44 catch,” even to the concluding movement, though the method of setting 
up differs, as has been seen. 
TONGA-R AUREPE. 
(Aporo, and H. Ruru, men of Ngati-Porou, Gisborne.) 
Synonyms: Takapau (Arawa and Tuhoe bribes) ; Tara Kaikape 
(Whanganui tribes). 
This figure was originally seen at Gisborne, but its working-out was not 
then obtained. Tonga-raurepe was an ancestor of the Ngati-Porou, which 
is probably the reason for the name being confined to them. The opening 
was obtained at Rotorua from Whaare-mutu, a Tuhoe woman. 
1. Opening A. 
2. Release thumbs. 
3. Left thumb into little-finger loop from above ; take on its back far 
little-finger string and return. 
4. Left forefinger into left-thumb loop from above ; take on its back 
near thumb string and return. 
5. Right forefinger from above down behind string extended between 
left forefinger and thumb, carry string to the right, making a half-turn 
away from you and up as the finger returns to its position. 
6. Release left thumb. 
7. Thumbs into little-finger loop from below, &c., as in method already 
described (N.Z. Jour. Sci. & Tech., vol. 3, p. 142). 
This figure is a great favourite in all places hitherto visited. 
Wahine, from Takapau. 
One method, used in another part of the world, has already been 
described (N.Z. Jour. Sci. & Tech., vol. 3, p. 147). The following was 
obtained from the Arawa people at Ohmemutu :— 
A second person inserts the forefingers and thumbs of both hands 
into the upper and lower of the triangles (whose bases are the upper and 
lower strings) on either side of the middle triangles of the figure ; close 
forefingers and thumbs, and turn in through the central diamond, then 
proceeding as in the ordinary method. Or the hands may be drawn 
slowly apart on the forefingers and thumbs being inserted in the triangles, 
without the preliminary turning-in. 
A simpler method was obtained from Motiwha, a young Whanganui 
Maori from Ohui. After movement 6 (p. 143 in Journal quoted above) 
drop little-finger loops. 
Comparison. 
Takapau is identical with a nameless figure from New Caledonia (Comp¬ 
ton, pp. 218, 219) in all movements except movements 3 and 4 above : these 
are reduced to one—viz., movement 3. Left forefinger down over little- 
finger loop and into little-finger loop from below ; hook up far little-finger 
string and return. 
