Pohatu-whakairi

"The suspended stone." A stone set up by the crew of the Arawa canoe for their amusement, at Wherenga. It was a kind of rocking-stone. One tradition states that it was a man changed into stone.

References

Source

  • Tregear, Edward. (1891). Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary. Wellington: Government Printer, p. 345.