MAORI SKELETON
' DISCOVERY MADE AT THAMES. PROBABLY BURIED FOR 100 YEARS THAMES, June 20. "While digging a hole in their garden to excavate shell, Mr and Mrs G. Halfman, of Queen Street, Thames, unearthed the skeleton of a man. ,'lhe lower jaw bone was shown to Dr; J. B. Liggins, who said it had been that of a Maori aged about 60 yearg. He considered the body to have jbeen buried about 100 years, as the teeth, were those of a fern-root eater. The place where; the bones were found--was once a beach, and the theory is held that the Maori was drowned and his body washed up and covered by shell. ( The bones have been carefully collected and will bo interred in the Totara Maori cemetery. ’
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1933, Page 3
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127MAORI SKELETON Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1933, Page 3
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