FACTS ABOUT MAORIS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day. ' Tn the course of a discussion at the Philosophical Institute, Sir James Hector mentioned the curious fact that, while a white man's thumb invariably left the impression of a single spiral, many Maoris showed double spiral, and it was from this he thought that they got their knowledge of spirals. Mr Tregear gave a description of an ancient Hakari feast in honour of the sun, seen occasionally by very early settlers, but long discontinued. No account of it has ever J>een published before.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 163, 12 July 1899, Page 5
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