COLLECTION OF MAORI ITEMS
Display To Be Sent To Malaya
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 14. A collection of'Maori items will soon be sent to Kuala Lumpur to stand in a place of honour in the residence of the New Zealand High Commissioner to Malaya (Mr C. M. Bennett). The display has been made up by the Dominion Museum’s ethnologist (Dr. T. T. Barrow) ' Mr Bennett, New Zealand’s first Maori diplomat, requested the collection so that Maori work could be displayed in his new residence. “It is composed of small items of interest to illustrate Maori life and culture, particularly the carving art,” said Dr. Barrow today. "Some of the adze types in Mr Bennett’s collection will be marked by Neolithic cultures of Indonesia. This is because Indonesia is the centre of the general area of Polynesian origins.” The collection would be returned to the Museum later, and though he was usually reluctant to see Maori materials leave New Zealand this was a rare exception-
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28794, 15 January 1959, Page 7
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