Two Maori adzes of considerable ethnological interest, one of basalt and the other of greenstone, found lying dose together between Leeston and Southbridge about 50 years ago, have been lent to the Canterbury Museum foi' exhibition by Mr A. W. Barnett, formerly of Leeston and now of Morven. The basalt adze is believed to belong to what was probably the earliest wave of Maori migration to the South Island. The finding of this “hog-backed” adze close to the greenstone adze, according to the actingcurator (Mr R. S. Duff), might suggest that the Maoris of, this period had access to the Arahura greenstone deposits, although greenstone adzes have been supposed to be very rare among them. An alternative suggestion is that Maoris of a later period continued to make the “hog-backed” adzes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1939, Page 8
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