[240-2] Dr Brinton (Primer, p. 95) says that this is called “an article of food, by Thomas.” While this is correct in the sense that I speak of the turkey (kutz or cuitz) as food, it is incorrect in giving the impression that I interpret the symbol by “article of food,” as I have always interpreted it “turkey.”
[245-1] Dr Brinton says it is the face of an old woman with a peculiar pointed earmark.
[248-1] Brinton says the ben symbol looks to him “like a wooden bridge, the two supports of which are shown and which was sometimes covered with a straw mat.” If so, it must be shown in profile, and the hanging marks above (see [LXVI], 16, 17, 19) would seem to be without signification; moreover, in [LXVI], 18, the supports hang from above, which would, on this theory, imply a hanging bridge.
[250-1] Cong. Inter. Americanistes, 1881, tom. 2.
[250-2] Dr Brinton says the usual form suggests scattered grain husks, the word for which is xiix.
[257-1] Jour. Am. Eth. and Arch., II, p. 38.
APPENDIX
A LIST OF THE DEITIES OF THE DAYS OF THE MONTH IN THE MAORI CALENDAR (AFTER TAYLOR).