Title: Mataroa and Niwareka
The story in brief:
Mataroa was a great warrior chief long ago who was
visited by some Turehu , spirits from the underworld, Rarohenga. They
were all graceful, pale and slender women who stayed with him a few
days, learning some of each other ways. He became attracted to on in
particular and asked to marry her. This was approved and they had a
great feast, after which the party departed leaving Niwareka. Now She
got to know her husband better, she found he was hot tempered, something
that does not occur in her underworld. When one day he hit her, she left
him and traveled back to the underworld. On missing her, Mataroa went
after her 
and was
let in by the guardian occupying the house of the four winds, the
entrance to the under-world. He had to travel through a long, dark
tunnel, sloping down, and met with a tiwaiwaka (fantail). The fantail
offered to be the guide.
There he found peace and tranquility and a strange
light that seemed to have no source. There he saw the art of moko,
tattooing. Until then in the upper-world, designs were painted on and
impermanent. He received his moko from Niwareka’s father. This moko is
chiseled into the face, a very painful, but permanent process. After a
while, Mataroa asked her to come back to the upper-world with him, but
she refused until he made a solemn promise to adopt the gentle ways of
the under-world and never to hit or shout at her again.
At the house of the four winds the Guardian refused to
let them through because he felt that Niwareka was taking something from the underworld that
should stay. He demanded to see her bundle and in it was the garment
of Te Rangi-haupapa. 
(scene of the carving)
He let them through
without it but told them that from now on he would not let anyone from
Rarohenga into the Over-world. Only the spirits of the dead were allowed
passage to the Under-world. So Mataroa brought the art of tattooing ,
and Niwareka the art of patterns and colour in weaving skirts and
ceremonial cloaks.
