Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

Dacrydium plumosum, Thuja doniana (in Taylor)

KAWAKA , KAIKAWAKA;  kahikawaka (Best 1907); mokopiko,  tōtara-kiri-kōtukutuku  (both in Williams 1971) 

Taylor 1870 gives the name makopiko "a cypress (Thuja doniana)".

Picture frames. Wood dark-coloured, beautifully grained, close and heavy. Believed to be very valuable (Colenso 1868a).

Wallace 1989 found a fernroot beater, a maul and a teka made from Libocedrus spp. among museum artefacts he tested.