horrid noise.” The surface of the calabash was ornamented with incised lines, made when the rind was soft. The specimen in the British Museum is about 3 ½ in. in diameter and 7 ½ in. in circumference. Mention should be made of the pahu, though this was used only for emitting a great body of sound: as in other parts of the world, it was used for signalling (see Hamilton, Maori Art, pp. 98, 384). The following particulars are from a note by the late Captain Mair. The pahu, pato, or wooden gong, was a single slab of totara (Podocarpus Fig. 2.—A pahu, or war-gong. (From White, Ancient History of the Maori, vol. 4, p. 128.) totara) or matai (Podocarpus spicatus), sometimes 30 ft. in length, 2 ft. or 3 ft. in breadth, and 6 in. in thickness. It was suspended by two stout ropes from a ridge-pole built on a high rangi, or platform, in an angle of the pa, the platform being approached by a ladder. In the centre of the slab there was usually an elliptical hole 2 ft. or 3 ft. in length. The slab was struck with a heavy club made from maire (Olea Cunninghamii), and under favourable circumstances could be heard to a distance of from six to ten miles. (See fig. 2.)