CARVED MAORI HEAD.
NEW PLYMOUTH DISCOVERT. POSSIBLY A RELIC OP WAR. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. While excavating on the site of a building which is to be erected for the New Plymouth , Savings Bank, workmen discovered a carved wooden Maori head. Mr. Edwin, of Motunui, suggests that when a war party killed an important chief and took his head, and then found themselves unable to get it home, a representatition of the captured head would be carved in wood, so that the war party had something to show at home. From the tattooing on the carving, copicd from the original, the Maoris would be able to tell to whom the head had belonged. It is believed the head found was such a trophy. The museum authorities are anxious to secure the head.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1930, Page 14
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