| They oiled her down with kokowai to keep the cold out and they constructed a little raft out of raupo to keep the baby buoyant and out of the water. |
| Red kokowai and suddenly the room fills with the movement of the sea, forests and tupuna sighing and whirling slowly above us. |
| Colleen sees this process as having an affinity with the custom of using kokowai in ancient rituals. |
| The kokowai was burned in a fire, ground into a fine powder and mixed with shark oil to make paint. |
