YOUTHFUL MARAUDERS TAKE SHELLS FROM MAORI CARVINGS
THE pawa shell decorations in the Auckland Museum seem to exercise an extraordinary fascins tion.for children.
Many of the Maori carving have been depleted of their she”: oy youthful marauders, though areful watch is now maintains iver them.
It was children, incidentally vho removed all the feathers from he big war canoe in the museum. There is now not one bunch of feathers on the sides of the historic craft.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 1
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77YOUTHFUL MARAUDERS TAKE SHELLS FROM MAORI CARVINGS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 1
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