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This structure represents an entrance way to a Pa or a Marae. The hut on the left of the entrance is a koutou which is a traditional food preparation structure and is outside because it's not tapu. Food preparation is not tapu; its noa, so it's not sacred. 
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The figures on the gate tell the story of the discovery of Oka, the use of ochre to preserve timber and preserve carvings. The ochre is made with a kind of iron rich clay, mineral rich clay that is often found in stream beds. There are lots of different colours: the red that you see most places to a yellow, a black and a white. It is mixed with fat which soaks into the timber and helps preserve the timber. Often times the coastal tribes would use shark fat. 
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Coming back to the figures on the gate, they tell the story of a man who was married and then the patupaiarehe, who are a kind of fairy people; came and stole his wife. He went to look for his wife and he couldn't ever find her because she would be there in the mist and then as soon as he went to get her she would disappear; so he could never get her back. So he went to see a Priest and the Priest said, &quot;You draw a circle around yourself with a mixture of kumara and ochre; smear it on the ground and then when she comes you'll embrace her and it will scare off the patupaiarehe&quot;. And so the man did as he was told, and it worked. They say that the kind of the patupaiarehe who wanted to marry her still lives at the top of Mount Pirongia when the mist comes over that mountain. She is shown on the right hand side, her husband on the left side and the fairy people up the top. 
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The figures with square shaped faces represent Matariki, which is the Pleiades. This is the constellation that is quite important for timing the kumara harvest. For the Greeks it was seven sisters but for a Maori it's a woman and six daughters.
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