FINE SPECIMENS OF MAORI CARVINGS
AUCKLAND, 22nd December The Auckland Museum to-day secured possession of the finest specimens of Maori carvings known> to exist in New Zealand. There is undoubted authority to prove that these carvings are genuine work, done before the days when the pakeha introduced the steel tools, as they are traced back to a period between 1780 and 1800. The reason that little has heretofore been known regarding them i» that for a century the boards lay buried in the sand in a cave on the East .Coast, to prevent them being stolen by the raids of the dreaded Ngapuhi of the North. Tho carvings in question are portions of a pataka, or food house, and came originally from Whangapararoa, just west of Cape Runaway, on the East Coast.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 150, 22 December 1911, Page 3
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132FINE SPECIMENS OF MAORI CARVINGS Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 150, 22 December 1911, Page 3
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