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This image of an unborn baby (kahu) lying in the womb shows the placenta (whenua) and the different parts of the umbilical cord (iho). Where the iho connects to the whenua it is called the rauru, and where it joins the baby it is the pito. Traditionally the whenua and the iho were buried with appropriate ceremony. This practice continues in the 2000s.
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