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The Material Culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki)

2.—Buildings and Village Sites

2.—Buildings and Village Sites.

Attention has already been drawn to the use of pohatu maori for placing round the walls of houses and to form rectangular areas in front. Though the use of stone to pave floors was not usual in dwelling houses, the visible proof of its use was evident on the site of the hare karioi in the old village of Vaitupa.

Smaller unworked pohatu maori were used for keeping down the edges of bark cloth when being dried. Some of these stones, through constant use, became quite shiny and polished in appearance. These and the unworked pohatu maori used as oven stones are to be found in old village sites.