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Show MALLHRY.] SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOB IN NEW ZEALAND. 57 the hahnnga took place, the scraped bones of the chief, thns ornamented, and wrapped in a red- stained mat, were deposited in a box or bowl, smeared with the sacred color, and placed in a tomb. Near his tinal resting- place a lofty and elaborately carved monument was erected to his memory; this was called he tiki, which was also thns colored. In former times the chief. annointed his entire person with red ochre; when fully dressed on state occasions, both he and his wives had red paint and oil poured upon the crown of the head and forehead, which gave them a gory appearance, as though their skulls had been cleft asunder. A large number of examples occur in the present paper where the use and significance of color is mentioned. Among these see pages 64, 165-' 6-' 7, and 1& 3. |