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The Name of the Tattoos of the Eyes Tattooed by the Tohunga

The poniania is the first.
Next is the tapawaha.
Next is the kauae.
Next is the ngangu.
Next are the tiwhana.
After that it is the koroaha.
After that it is the kokoti.
The last is the whanakenake.
That ends that tattoo.

The poniania
is outside on the nose.
The tapawaha
is a design which meets the poniania,
which goes beside the corner of the lips
and down to the chin. That ends that.

The ngangu
is the tattoo of the nose in the middle.
That is that.

The tiwhana
is above the eyebrows.
The rewha of the tiwhana is above
the round of the ngangu.

The titi
are above in the middle of the tiwhana.
The koroaha . . .
a design drawn away from the
lines of the tapawaha

The putaringa of the koroaha
is drawn away from the main line of the
koroaha.
That ends that.

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The spiral on the cheek.
A thing drawn out from the lines of the nose.
Spiral on the cheek.
A thing drawn out from the line of the cheek.
But kokoti are
the lines of boundary, ngangu
are the others.
Enough, that ends that.
The hupe is above the lips and
below the nose. Enough.

The body tattoo are
written about here.
The body lays down for the tohunga
to start, first with drawing;
then that is finished.
Then the tohunga takes the mallet
in his right hand
and the chisel in his hand as well,
as it is done in moko,
as it was explained in the first section.
However, when he is ready
with the mallet, charcoal and tow
in the right hand
and only the chisel in the left hand,
a broad chisel is used first.
This opens the way, cutting and
making the groove, then the notched
chisel is taken to notch the skin
and to hold the pigment.
A broad chisel [is taken]
to do the interlinear design
Then he takes a small-face chisel
to cut and open.
That finished, he takes the chisel
to hold the charcoal; that
is a notched chisel.
That ends this.

Turn to the hips.
It is drawn. When finished
it is tattooed as described before.
The thighs are drawn next
and when this is finished
the tattoo starts.

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On the straight parts a broad chisel is used.
When it comes to the curves
a narrow chisel is taken. This is so.
With the opening chiselled down to
the holding chisel at the end,
the pakati is chiselled until it
is finished.
That ends this.

The buttocks
from the rump
to the thighs, and the hips.
At the middle of the buttocks, at the
start of the backbone.
Puhoro.
From the side of the thigh
below the buttocks
a thing filled with the curves is inside
the point of the buttocks [design] then
goes outside this to the backbone.
This ends this; it is all finished.