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Walsh Archdeacon 1912. The Manuaute or Maori kite. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 45: 375-384

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Manuaute means "The bird made of aute". Parkinson, on a visit to the Bay of Islands in 1844, got cuttings of aute off chief Patuone, but he failed to propagate them. Kite-making - aute originally used in form of tapa, stretched on frame. Heads still sometimes made of aute. No record of use of aute in form of tapa - used in form of strips of inner bark. Description of kite-making and kite-flying and related customs and traditions. Quotes other sources.

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The Manuaute or Maori kite
1912
Walsh Archdeacon
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
45
375
384

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