Te Hunahuna-a-Po.

Another Remnant of Phallic Worship.(From Ngati-Manawa.)

The Hunahuna-a-Po is a hinau tree [unclear: which] at the Horomanga creek, [unclear: ad] one side of that tree is green and [unclear: said] is dry. And if a barren [unclear: wo] should visit that tree in order [unclear: at] she may bear a child, she closes [unclear: er]while yet afar off, and is very [unclear: beautiful how] she approaches the sacred [unclear: a] (kiakaua e haeremaorinoaiho) [unclear: s] myinformant puts it. So the wo-[unclear: an]gnesto embrace the tree. For a [unclear: g] time she clasps the trunk of the [unclear: e] and then turns from it with her [unclear: s] still closed and goes away, sothat [unclear: e] may not see which side of the tree [unclear: s] has embraced. It is another per-[unclear: n] who notes the arrival of the wo-[unclear: an] at the tree It is not unknown [unclear: the] the tohunga as to which side of the [unclear: is]embraced by the woman [unclear: Should] woman e.n brace theliving [unclear: s] of the tree she will bear a child, but [unclear: he] clasps the dead side then no [unclear: d] come to gladden her. At [unclear: tea]there is a man named Te[unclear: Ai]te-hinau who was born through [unclear: influence]ence of that hinau. Te [unclear: Hun?]-[unclear: a]-a-Po And children and grand [unclear: child] have been born to him.