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  • This lock of hair was what we call the maunu, meaning the bait.

    SHIN-BONES 2010

  • This lock of hair was what we call the maunu, meaning the bait.

    Shin-Bones 1919

  • (Fornander gives this name as Ka-maunu-a-niho), on his arrival from Kahiki, settled in Koolau and married a woman named Hina.

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

  • Hargreaves i makaia he miti, he mea paihana ki te 'maunu putoko' ma runga i te taiapa.

    New Zealand Herald - Top Stories 2010

  • E ai ki a Hargreaves kihai ia i whakatakoto maunu huri noa i tana kainga na te mea "ko nga kuri tonu ki te kai i nga kiore o konei" a, kaore kau he putanga i nga taiepa hei omanga ma nga kuri ki waho atu i te pamu, ki te kai i te paihana o wahi ke.

    New Zealand Herald - Top Stories 2010

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