Note.

Nuku-pewapewa was so named because his face was tattooed with a pattern called pewapewa. It consisted of a single curve round the eye, a spiral on the nose, and three lines curving from the nose to the chin. A carved figure representing this chief, bearing his peculiar moko, is to be found on one of the corner-posts of the palisading at the Papa-wai pa near Greytown. He is credited with being a man of extraordinary height, and in a cave called Hui-te-rangi-ora, on the Nga-waka-a-Kupe Hill (about four miles east of Martinborough), there is or was to be seen his mark. Here the Native chiefs for many generations dipped a hand in kokowai and struck the wall as high as possible; Nuku's mark is a clear foot above all the rest. He was drowned about 1840, and at Te Whaka-ki, on the beach at Wairoa, where the accident took place, his canoe was carved and erected as a monument, “And” (said my informant) “it is still there, or was there when last I visited the spot.”