Recent additions to the exhibits of the Canterbury Museum include one metal and two stone adzes, found a: Hokitika and presented by Mr W. H Johnston, of Fendalton. Discussing the adzes, Mr R. S. Duff, ethnologist at the museum, said that the metal one hac been hammered out of copper. The other two. which are designed so that they can be fastened on their hafts like grubber heads, show off to advantage the very noticeable curve that is to be found in most adzes shaped by Pacific peoples. This characteristic, Mr Dull said, had suggested to some ethnologists that the Polynesians had been brought into contact in some way or other with a metal culture before they left the mainland of Asia. Possibly they remembered a style of metal implement, and had incorporated it in their design of stone weapons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 7
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