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Rh on both sides, into a conventional representation of two bird-headed snakes, the mythological manaia, placed back to back.

Figure 15 is an illustration of a carved piece of greenstone now preserved in the University Museum at Cambridge, which will be seen to have a great likeness to the pekapeka shewn in Figure 14. It is, however, obviously a representation of a single manaia.

The remarkable pendant illustrated in Figure 16 is worked on both sides in the form of a bird-headed monster, the leg having