ANCIENT MAORI FLAGEOLET.
EECEIVED FKOH HOME. During the course o! last night's meets ing of the Philosophical Society, Mr. Hamilton (director of the Dominion Museum) exhibited a valuable M&ori flute, which had just been received from Home. Tho instrument was (he explained) more a flageolet than a flute. Elaborately carved in high relief, i± was apparently of very great age. MrHamilton went on to say thai the instrument probably came from the Bay of Islands. "It was procured for the 6ociety by Major Bobley, an ex-Ne\z Zeaiaader,who is a celebrated oolleotor of Maon antiquities. The instrument, which a about ISin. long, had for a long time bean in the possession of the family of an early missionary.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 832, 2 June 1910, Page 4
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117ANCIENT MAORI FLAGEOLET. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 832, 2 June 1910, Page 4
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