Supplemental Answers by the Rev. J. W. Stack.

I have just received from an old Maori chief, Hakopa te Ata o Tu, at Kaiapoi, the following replies to a translation of the questions forwarded to mo by Dr. von Haast. I attach great value to them, as the writer is a very intelligent man, who occupied a loading position in the Maori community here at the time of Rauparaha's invasion.

1. I never saw the process of making hei-tiki being carried on here (South Island) when I was a child. [Hakopa is at least eighty-three years old.—J. W. S.] Hei-tiki were all made in the North Island.

2. Obsidian and chips of hard stone, hut no chisels, were used in making hei-tiki. Very hard stone, obsidian, and a grindstone were the tools used in shaping greenstone.

3. People never prayed to hei-tiki. They were mementoes of deceased ancestors, to remind their posterity.

9. (a) Hauhunga [Hauhunga= frost, cool.—F. R. C.]; (b) kawakawa; (c) inanga; (d) kahurangi; (e) tangiwai; (f) matakirikiri—greenstone pebbles; (g) aotea—a counterfeit greenstone, opaque; citen mistaken when in the river-beds by the unskillful.

10. Arahura, Waininihi, Hohonu (Taramakau), Piopiotahi, were the streams in which greenstone was formerly found.

14. When I see you I will tell you of the discovery of greenstone [Already related above.]

15. Some greenstone could not be broken by any other stone but greenstone.