FINDING OF A MAORI GOD.
Dunedin, This day. A settler at Murdering Beach, near Otago Heads (a place Avhieh takes its unpleasant name from the murder by the Maoris located there many years ago of a whaling boat's ci'cav) has" unearthed in ploughing the greenstone figure of the Maori god Tiki. It is about eight inches in height, aud is a grotesque looking object, the god being represented in a squatting position, AA-ith his legs joined together, his arms akimbo, and Avith big staring eyes. In tho top of the head a hole has been drilled for the purpose of putting a string through, so as to suspend the figure.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3675, 25 April 1883, Page 3
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110FINDING OF A MAORI GOD. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3675, 25 April 1883, Page 3
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