Makaia ai ngā purapura ki roto i te awa kia kuhu tahi me ngā wātakirihi, hei te wā e hauhakea ai he huaranga kau i ngā pūtake o ngā wātakirihi e kohia ana (TP 10/1909:4). / Place the tubers in the stream to join with the watercress, and at the time of harvest, transplant the roots of the watercress you are collecting.

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He purapura whetū ngā papa tukutuku o te tuarongo o te whare (PK 2008:719). / The tukutuku panels of the back wall of the house were of the purapura whetū pattern.

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Ko te purapura-whetū tētahi o ngā tauira tukutuku e tohu ana i ngā whetū maha. Purapura-whetū is a tukutuku pattern symbolising myriads of stars. /

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