forming it into ornaments were not chisels, but pieces of obsidian and flint with which drills were pointed. The shaping of the holes when made was done by rubbing with gritty stone. Maoris never worshipped the hei-tiki. It was only an oha tupuna, he tohu ki ona uri, a relic of an ancestor, a sign to his descendants. The names of the different kinds of greenstone were hauhunga, kawakawa, inanga, kahurangi, tangiwai, matakirikiri, aotea,
Figure 50
kahotea. The places where greenstone was formerly found were Arahura, Waininihi, Hohonu (i.e., Taramakau) and Pio pio tahi (i.e, Milford Sound). Some pounamu was so hard that it could only be broken by using hammers of greenstone.”
The detail drawing (Figure 50) illustrates the method of fastening the ornament to the kaui-tiki, the cord which went
