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Show - 1U5 Roa thought deeply unon Henry's words regarding his brother Ruruku: YO U should take the lead... in annroaching him and helping him back to health. He needs you. Henry x«ras right. He would try to bridge the gan to his brother. He would carve a crutch for Ruruku and teach him to walk with it. According to the custom of his oeoole, this carving was to be an imnortant undertaking and not to be handled lightly. He would partake of no food or drink until his work was finished. His tools would be a bone knife, a mallet, and a small greenstone chisel. Roa selected a sturdy limb of a kauri tree with a fork in it for underarm suonort. He would, later fasten a cross bar lower down for the hand sunnort. Slowly under the gxiidance of his skilled hands, the tools began to work their magic on the wood. Proud of his ancestry, as his neonle had been for generations, the young Maori remembered the legends handed down since time began. Having no written language, the Maoris committed to memory |