EUROPEAN INFLUENCE
Iron Head On Carver’s Tool (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Mar. 19. A tool showing how contact with Europeans had influenced Maoris to use iron instead of stone has been given to the Dominion Museum, the museum’s enthologist, Dr. T. Barrow, said today. The light, wooden-helved, iron-headed adze has been presented by Mrs Rangimahana Mete, of Himatangi. It had been used by a carver, Rangikaiwhiria, of Awahuri. Dr. Barrow said the haft had probably held a stone head and been replaced by the steel. The change in materials had occurred in the early part of last century. This was the museum’s first complete composite tool. The helve was similar to others taken from Lake Horowhenua dating back to the pre-Euro-pean era.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30395, 20 March 1964, Page 18
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