When Maoris Bartered Heads
According to a recent overseas newspaper article the flax industry in New Zealand began in 1864. Dressed flax, smoke-dried human heads and kauri spars figured as articles of trade long before the days of British rule. When the Maoris needed guns or powder to carry on their tribal wars, flax was one of the chief articles of barter with shipmasters trading from Sydney. Flax produced by the ancient Maori method wag as fine and lustrous as silk.—■ G.A.O. (Wellington)
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page III (Supplement)
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83When Maoris Bartered Heads Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page III (Supplement)
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