OLD MAORI BURIAL GROUND
DISCOVERED AT AITKT, \ND iEy TetosWDfc.—PrcM. 'Atsocifttloß,'. , , Auckland, Jpny, Ifi While esea'vatiiig' rock ion ' (lip 1UW.hiti Estate, on tlio western slope of a scoria bill kilqwn as 'Littip Haiißitoio., ii> Jlounfnin lload, Iloniuora, some emplovees of tho Dcmuora Hoad Bond SCtdsi' a Maori b'.ii'y.inj:place, \vi(li # heap ■flf bones which had evidently boon undisturbed for (l.pn-/ furies. •' Tlier" was no apparent moans' of. iii®;#' to the cave-. . Spnvf ; of ;th<j hones had been reduced to jKAvdor, hiit most of tbc.n Were i» t siat:e. o.i' ejcrel-. lent preservation. The skulls showed, tlint at least a rlosrn skeletons jvncl horn deposited. Cop Wary to wh'a-i. W iisusllv tho eas« in s'uoh finds., the skill; ivoro intae.t, with the- lower jaw con' ■ plcte.- __
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7
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124OLD MAORI BURIAL GROUND Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7
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