The group from Mairepa arrived on the second day of the Tanimi. The mara in Hamai is a small wooden platform built on stilts to avoid the flooding in the area. The Poviri was already performed once when the body of Ephata arrived but this group from the other town was the family of her sister who was married to the shaman of Mairepa to end the long dispute between the two settlements.

Before the grieving sister could enter the mara a tradition greeting had to be performed. Before her family could step onto the platform three Tupai men equipped with Tewhatewhas started to walk down the steps of the platform yelling at the guests and holding their weapons as if they were to attack. The two men flanking the middle man stop half way down the stairs but the third man continues down to place a carved trinket of the Thundrbird as a symbol of peace and backed off up the stairs. Once the sister picked up the trinket to symbolise that her group was not there to betray the other grievers. Almost immediately after she accepted the gift the Paraga started, a ceremonial signing was performed calling out to the guests, a woman to the side performed it.

Finally, the last step of the Pofiri is several speeches, spoken by both the guests and their hosts welcoming their guests as well as expressing the guests' thanks. Finally, the grieving sister stood up to speak and presented a gift for her hosts, an entire gutted water buffalo to make a imu the next day. After she presented the gift she sat down as the shaman of the town got up to accept the water buffalo with two other men to carry it off and prepare the beast. Then the Tapu of the Pofiri was lifted when the guests and the hosts make physical contact in a Honovi.

For the rest of the ceremony, the sister could be seen with the rest of the deceased grandmother's family standing around her corpse wearing black and not speaking, as is the tradition for the kin of the dead. The last day of the Tanimi was filled with people regaling stories of the dead, of their faults, their errors, but also of their virtues and jokes and songs.

As the day draws to a close the water buffalo is prepared for tomorrow's feast and the vigil to sunrise begins. To cook the buffalo is a traditional style of cooking animals called an imu in which a hole is dug first and stones heated using a fire in that same pit. Then the rocks are placed in the buffalo with banana leaves lining the pit and wrapping the buffalo. Finally, the entire thing is covered with more banana leaves and a layer of dirt to be left to sit for 6 or seven hours. When the food was finished cooking and the vigil ended the buffalo was pulled out from the imu and the meat was shredded to prepare the feast. The food was brought by the guests and the entire village took part in it.

The last two steps of the Tanimi is the spiritual cleansing of the house of the dead and the transportation of the body out to sea in a canoe so the deceased can return to the Tupain homeland of Havaka.