The Door, Ngutupa.

The door, or ngūtŭpa, is nearly always on the side in dwelling houses. In cooking houses, it may be on the end opposite the cooking end of the house. There was no history obtainable of a wooden sliding door. The ngatupa seems to have been merely a gap in the patiha wall for entrance and exit.

When so desired, it was closed with a hapuka sheet of cocoanut leaf such as has been described.