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• Paddling chants, 102, 162–166

• Pae-hinahina Pa, Rotoiti, 234–240

• Paeko, proverb of, 112

• Pao-miere, religious cult, 80–83, 261–262

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• Parearau, star, 90

• Patara te Ngungukai, the bonescraper, 74

• Patara te Tuhi, 5

• Patu-paiarehe (fairy people), stories of, 211–214

• Pikopiko-i-whiti, 24, 74

• Pioneer Battalion, Maori, 10

• Pleiades, constellation (Matariki), 85, 86

• Poetry of the Maori, 91–109

• Poi action song, 199–202

• Pomare (Ngati-Mutunga chief) 10

• Pomare, Sir Maui, 4–7

• Population, Maori and half-caste, 7, 8

• Potatau Te Wherowhero, 72

• Proverbial sayings, 110–113

• Punga-o-Tainui, mooring stone, 179–180