Tapui, a pā created by multiple ditches and banks on interlocking bends of the old course of the Te Arai River, near Manūtūke

The banks of the river are slightly obscured by young willows in this 1948 aerial photograph. Two curved, interlocking points have been defended by ditches and banks. On the left (west) a rectangular section of double ditch and bank has been constructed enclosing the point and some additional area. Three separate lines of ditch and bank enclose the point on the right bank of the river, the innermost obscured by willows. There is a further rectangular section of ploughed-out ditch and bank to the north of the easternmost defences (top right). There may also have been defences on the broad point to the south among the regular array of white blobs. The road is 6 m wide and the total area of the pā (including the enclosed water) is about 300 by 200 m. The water in the river-bed is ponded and its light colour is caused either by a surface-growing weed or muddy floodwater, compounded by the loss of grey-tone variation in the archived transparency from which the photograph is taken.