| [33] | With kokowai, or red-ochre. |
| [34] | ([1], [2], [3], [4]) Names of the Fairy chiefs. |
| [35] | Point of junction of the spine and skull. |
| [36] | Lower extremity of the spine. |
| [37] | Omens were gathered from the movement of the dead body. The word fish or canoe is often used symbolically for a man. |
| [38] | The perineum and head are considered the most sacred parts of the human body. |
| [39] | The ueta is a whisp of weeds or grass used to wipe the anus of the corpse. It is afterwards bound to a stick, and is carried as a talisman. |
| [40] | The hair of the head, in this ceremony, was made fast to a stone, and the sacredness of the hair was supposed to be transferred to this stone, which represented some ancestor. The stone and hair were then carried to the sacred place belonging to the Pa. |
| [41] | Uwha, the bivalve shell used for cutting the hair. |
| [42] | Kohukohu, the plant chick-weed, in the leaves of which the sacred kumara was wrapped. |