The Māori Creation of Man

Of Tiki little is preserved: his great work was that of making man, which he is said to have done after his own image. One account states, that he took red clay and kneaded it with his own blood, and so formed the eyes and limbs, and then gave the image breath. Another, that man was formed of clay, and the red ochreous water of swamps, and that Tiki bestowed both his own form and name upon him, calling him Tiki-ahua, or Tiki's likeness.

Taylor, Richard, Te Ika a Maui or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, London: Wertheim and Macintosh, 1855, p. 23.