whakapakoko
1. (verb) (-tia) to dry, mummify, preserve a corpse.
Ka whakapakokotia te tūpāpaku, ka tuakina te puku, ka waiho kia maroke, kātahi ka kawea pukutia ki roto ki te ana (W 1971:255). / When the corpse was mummified, and after the stomach was removed, it was left to dry, and then taken secretly into the cave.
2. (modifier) image of.
I ngā motu o Hawaiki nei, i te wā e mutu ai te kai o te ahiahi, ka tae te tino kaumātua ki te wai, he mea tāwiri i te rākau kawakawa nei, ā he mea hoatu taua wai hei whakahere ki ngā atua whakapakoko, he mea hoki kia ora ai rātou aua tāngata i te hoariri, i te kōhuru, i te matekai (TW 30/11/1878:600). / In the islands of Hawaiki (Hawai‘i), at the time when the evening meal is over, the senior elder arrives with water and shakes the kawakawa tree and presents that water as an offering to the images of the gods so that they will save those people from the enemy, from treacherous acts and hunger.
3. (noun) statue, idol, mummy, figure, statuette, carved image (figure of a person, etc.).
Ka whakairohia e Te Kere ngā whakapakoko e rua (TTR 1990:250). / Te Kere carved the two figures.
