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(see page 41) pecking the body. Figure 29 is an illustration of a wooden tiki which shews these fabulous monsters very clearly. Tiki made of bone[1] have also been preserved which distinctly shew that the parts, which in greenstone tiki degenerated into a rude likeness to the legs of the figure, are in their origin not legs but manaia.
Figure 29
Type A, of which Figure 28 at the beginning of this chapter is a well marked example, shews the arms akimbo with the outspread hands resting upon the thighs. It has four teeth in the mouth, indicated by knobs at the middle and ends of the lips, beyond which the tongue does not extend.
- ↑ In the British Museum there are two specimens of hei-tiki made from pieces of human skull.
