Native tombs. [image of page 115]
plate l. Tombs. 1. Mausoleum of e tohi, the mother of rauparaha, on the island of mana, in cook's straits. This richly ornamented tomb stands at a short distance from rangihaeata's celebrated house, and, like it, is constructed of wood, painted, and decorated with feathers. The border of a splendid kaitaka mat is seen depending in front of the papatupapaku, or box for the body, within which the body was originally placed in a sitting posture. All the ground within the outer rail is strictly tapu. 2. An upright sepulchral monument, at a small island pah in tory channel, not far from its junction with queen charlotte's sound, middle island. 3. Another upright monument, differently painted, at te awa iti, cloudy bay, middle island. Both this and the preceding are formed out of portions of canoes. 4. A carved tiki, or image, in an old pah near roto-aire lake; beyond the image is a little elevated whata, or box, for holding the bones of a favourite child. 5. A monument to three children, near te awa iti, cloudy bay. Date: 1847.
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