MAORI CARVINGS.
I3KFOKIO TIIF HATS 01- TIIK I'AKKHA. (lir TeleErranli.-Preps Association ! Auckland, December r l he Auckland Museum 10-day secured possession of Hie lines! specimens oi Miinri carvings known In rsisl. in Now Zealand. There i? undoubted nutliorily In prove Ih.'.r Ili rn l carvings are genuine work, done before (ho davs when (ln> pakeha introduced (ho sl'cel lools, ns I lio.v are (raced back til. between ITSft ond 18011. Tlio reason that litllo hus heretofore been known regarding I hem' i* thai for a century the hoards''lay Iniried in Hie wind in a cave on the K;isf Const, to pri'venl them being stolen bv the raids of the dreaded Ngapuhi of Hie north. Tim carvings in nucstion are portions of a patnka, or food house, and came originally from Whangapararoa, just west of Cape Runaway on the K.ast Const.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1318, 22 December 1911, Page 4
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140MAORI CARVINGS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1318, 22 December 1911, Page 4
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