Vandals Raid Secret Caves of Maori Dead
CHIEFS INCENSED SKULLS SCATTERED ABOUT Press Association WHANGAREI, Today. The discovery that secret caves in which the dead of the Parawhau tribe of Maoris have rested for centuries, had been entered and desecrated, has incensed the chiefs. One guardian, to whom the location of the caves was revealed in accordance with native custom many years ago, investigated rumours of the riflling of the cave. He found the seal broken and skulls lying scattered aDout at the entrance. Further investigation to ascertain the extent of vandalism is to be made. “How would the Pakehas like it if the Maoris stole the skull of a dead Prime Minister or Governor from the grave and exhibited it as a curio in a drawing-room?” asked a Maori guardian of the ancestral restingplace, when speaking to a reporter today.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 847, 16 December 1929, Page 1
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141Vandals Raid Secret Caves of Maori Dead Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 847, 16 December 1929, Page 1
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