Figure 232.—Tapa and feather gods, Mangaia. a: length of body and legs, 330 mm.; middle body width, 100 mm.; two arms (1, 1), 50 and 60 mm. long; legs (2, 2): body of folded lengths of sennit and wrapped with white tapa and tied with spiral turn of fine thread; tropic bird tail feathers kept in position by thread lashings (Cambridge Univ. Mus., Z.6094). b: smaller than Cambridge figure and without arms; length of body and legs 142 mm.; body width 22 to 24 mm.; legs (2, 2), 36 and 34 mm. long and 11 and 10 mm. thick; body formed of sennit folds and wrapped with continuous strip of white tapa which covers up end in transverse turn, descends in oblique turns, and divides at bottom to wrap each leg separately; bunches of split black feathers seized with single coir fiber, arranged around top outside tapa, and tied with turns of fine oronga thread; red and green feathers added to body in layers from above down with spiral thread; small black feathers on body at back; tropic bird feathers attached at sides to lean forward; tufts of small red feathers tied to legs (British Mus., L.M.S., no number). c, formation of body of b with thick sennit, 9 mm. wide, doubled three times at top (1) and twice at bottom of body, with two free ends (2) projecting down to form legs.