“LITTLE STONEHENGE”
Find in Pacific Islands Canberra, May 20. Stone structures of mysterious origin and estimated to be 2000 years old which have been discovered in the Trobriand Islands, west of Papua, form a subject of interest in a report made by Mr. F. E. Williams, Government anthropologist. He states that some of the structures on the island of Kiriwina appeared to him like "a little Stonehenge.” Their original purpose seemed to have been lost or forgotten, but it is likely that they wore “tomb temples'’ or sacred places of burial. At the site of one of the structures human bones were found buried.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 200, 21 May 1936, Page 9
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104“LITTLE STONEHENGE” Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 200, 21 May 1936, Page 9
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